磨
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to rub; to grind; to polish; to sharpen; to wear down; to die out; to waste time; to pester; to insist
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Words with 磨
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 磨制石器 | a polished stone (neolithic) implement | |
| 好事多磨 | the road to happiness is strewn with setbacks (idiom) | |
| 磨不开 | to feel embarrassed | |
| 水磨石 | terrazzo | |
| 磨嘴皮子 | to wear out the skin of one's teeth (idiom); pointlessly blather; to talk incessant nonsen… | |
| 磨破嘴皮子 | to wear out one's lips (idiom); to talk until one is blue in the face; to repeat again and… | |
| 球磨机 | ball mill | |
| 磨得开 | to feel unembarrassed; to be at ease; (dialect) to be convinced; to come round | |
| 角磨机 | angle grinder | |
| 磨脚石 | pumice stone | |
| 刀不磨要生锈，人不学要落后 | (proverb) a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he does… | |
| 磨子 | mill; grain mill; millstone | |
| 磨人 | annoying; bothersome; to fret; to be peevish | |
| 磨破嘴皮 | to talk until one is blue in the face | |
| 磨洋工 | to idle on the job | |
| 拉磨 | (of a donkey etc) to turn a millstone; (fig.) to do laborious and monotonous work | |
| 磨机 | milling machine | |
| 细磨刀石 | whetstone (for honing knives) | |
| 电磨 | electric mill (for grinding wheat etc) | |
| 消磨时间 | to kill time |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 麻 — compare how they read.