摸不着

can't touch / can't reach / (fig.) unable to get a grasp of

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

variant of 摹[mo2]

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

no need / need not

(chess) move / trick / all right! / (dialect) to add

to touch / to come in contact with / to feel / to be affected by / to catch fire / to burn / (coll.) to fall asleep / (after a verb) hitting the mark / succeeding in

aspect particle indicating action in progress

to wear (clothes) / to contact / to use / to apply

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]

to be unable to make any sense of the matter / to be at a loss

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

irrelevant / can't make head or tail of