摸

to feel with the hand / to touch / to stroke / to grope / to steal / to abstract

variant of 摹[mo2]

"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

surname Mo

do not / there is none who

surreptitious / sneaky

surreptitious; sneaky

to reckon / to guess

to imitate the dog and steal chicken (idiom) / to pilfer / to dally with women / to have affairs

lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom) / fig. at a total loss

to touch an elephant with closed eyes (idiom); to proceed blindly

(dialect) to savor / to test the taste of / (fig.) to ponder upon / to mull over

variant of 踅摸[xue2 mo5]

multitude of blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[da4 ban1 Nie4 pan2 jing1]); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees

see 丈二和尚，摸不著頭腦|丈二和尚，摸不着头脑[zhang4 er4 he2 shang5 , mo1 bu5 zhao2 tou2 nao3]

not acquainted with the situation / not up on things