(mù) - curtain, screen, act (of a play) in Mandarin
mùTraditional: 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
幕
Examples
。
Please turn on the subtitles.
。
The film has begun.
台。
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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