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抹杀

mǒ shā

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 抹殺

抹杀 (mǒ shā) means "to erase; to cover traces; to obliterate evidence". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 抹杀 means

1. to erase
2. to cover traces
3. to obliterate evidence
4. to expunge
5. to blot out
6. to suppress

The characters in 抹杀

• 抹mǒto smear; to wipe; to erase
• 杀shāto kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart

Words containing 抹杀

• 一笔抹杀yī bǐ mǒ shāto blot out at one stroke; to reject out of hand; to deny without a hearing

Sounds the same

Read mǒ shā, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 抹煞variant of 抹杀

Where 抹杀 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · mó–mú (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read mǒ shā correctly.
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