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涂抹

tú mǒ

HSK 6 2-character word Traditional 塗抹

What 涂抹 means

1. to paint
2. to smear
3. to apply (makeup etc)
4. to doodle
5. to erase
6. to obliterate

The characters in 涂抹

• 涂túto apply (paint etc); to smear; to daub
• 抹mǒto smear; to wipe; to erase

Example sentences

• 我把起酥油涂抹在鹿肉上。
  I daub the venison with shortening.
• 将它们放在烤盘上并且涂抹蛋白。
  Jiāng tāmen fàng zài kǎopán shàng bìngqiě túmǒ dànbái.
  Put them on the baking pan and smear them with egg whites.

Words starting with 涂抹

• 涂抹酱tú mǒ jiàngspread (for putting on bread etc)

Where 涂抹 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · tuán–tuō (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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