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琢磨

zuó mo

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

琢磨 (zhuó mó) means "to carve and polish (jade); to polish and refine a literary work; to ponder". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 琢磨 means

  1. to ponder
  2. to mull over
  3. to think through
  4. Taiwan pr. zhuó mó

Other readings

琢磨 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

The characters in 琢磨

Words containing 琢磨

Where 琢磨 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhuó–zú (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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