默 (mò) means "Silent" in Chinese. It has 16 strokes with the radical 黑, and is HSK Level 4. Difficulty: 4.2/5.
Silent
The character 默 (mò) is written with 16 strokes. Follow the standard Chinese stroke order: top to bottom, left to right, outside before inside. The radical 黑 is one of its key components.
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默 is pronounced mò in Mandarin Chinese. It means Silent.
As an HSK Level 4 character, 默 is an intermediate-level character.
他保持沉默。
tā bǎo chí chén mò
He kept silent.
他说话很幽默。
tā shuō huà hěn yōu mò
He speaks very humorously.
我们要默写生词。
wǒ men yào mò xiě shēng cí
We need to write new words from memory.
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