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(mù) - curtain, screen, act (of a play) in Mandarin

Traditional: 幕

Line drawing of 幕
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Translation

curtain, screen, act (of a play)

Word origin

A phono-semantic character combining the cloth radical 巾 (jīn) at the foot with 莫 (mò) as the phonetic, the cloth giving the sense of a curtain or screen, hence an act of a play.

Origin
phono-semantic
Root
巾 (cloth radical) + 莫 (mò, phonetic)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 幕

Examples

Please turn on the subtitles.

The film has begun.

tái

The curtain on the stage has been pulled back.

幕 (mù) means curtain or screen, the head of 字幕 (zìmù, subtitles) and 银幕 (yínmù, silver screen).

Appears in 2 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 幕.

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This word is part of lesson 107.