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摩擦

mó cā

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

摩擦 (mó cā) means "friction; rubbing; chafing". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 摩擦 means

1. friction
2. rubbing
3. chafing
4. fig. disharmony
5. conflict
6. also written 磨擦

The characters in 摩擦

• 摩móto rub
• 擦cāto rub; to scratch; to wipe; to polish; to apply (lipstick, lotion etc)

Words starting with 摩擦

• 摩擦力mó cā lìfriction
• 摩擦音mó cā yīnfricative (phonetics)

Sounds the same

Read mó cā, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 磨擦variant of 摩擦

Where 摩擦 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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