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拇指

mǔ zhǐ

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

拇指 (mǔ zhǐ) means "thumb; big toe". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 拇指 means

1. thumb
2. big toe

The characters in 拇指

• 拇mǔthumb; big toe
• 指zhǐfinger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to

Example sentences

• 人的手有五个手指: 拇指、食指、中指、无名指和小指。
  Rén de shǒu yǒu wǔ gè shǒuzhǐ: mǔzhǐ, shízhǐ, zhōngzhǐ, wúmíngzhǐ hé xiǎozhǐ.
  The hand has five fingers: the thumb, the index finger, the middle finger, the ring finger, and the pinky.

Words starting with 拇指

• 拇指甲mǔ zhǐ jiathumbnail

Words containing 拇指

• 大拇指dà mu zhǐthumb
• 小拇指xiǎo mǔ zhǐlittle finger; pinkie
• 翘拇指qiào mǔ zhǐto give a thumbs-up
• 竖起大拇指shù qǐ dà mu zhǐto give a thumbs-up; to express one's approval
• 二拇指èr mu zhǐindex finger

Sounds the same

Read mǔ zhǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 拇趾big toe
• 𧿹趾variant of 拇趾

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read mǔ zhǐ correctly.
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