穆
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solemn; reverent; calm; burial position in an ancestral tomb (old); old variant of 默
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 禾 +11
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 穆
- Common rank
- #1,716
- Unicode
- U+7A46
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
reverent · Heisig RSH #3014
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 穆
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 穆巴拉克 | Hosni Mubarak (1928-2020), former Egyptian President and military commander | |
| 赫尔穆特·科尔 | Helmut Kohl (1930-), German CDU politician, Chancellor 1982-1998 | |
| 亚穆苏克罗 | Yamoussoukro (city in the Ivory Coast) | |
| 穆索尔斯基 | Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Russian composer, composer of Pictures at an Exhibition | |
| 阿穆尔河 | Amur River (the border between northeast China and Russia); same as 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jia… | |
| 阿穆尔州 | Amur Oblast, in far eastern Russia | |
| 穆沙拉夫 | Pervez Musharraf (1943-), Pakistani general and politician, president 2001-2008 | |
| 穆尔西 | Morsi, Mursi or Morsy (name); Mohamed Morsi (1951-2019), Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood polit… | |
| 穆斯林 | Muslim | |
| 拉斯穆森 | Rasmussen (name) | |
| 赫尔穆特 | Helmut (name) | |
| 穆夫提 | (Islam) mufti (loanword from Arabic) | |
| 周穆王 | King Mu, fifth king of Zhou, said to have lived to 105 and reigned 976-922 BC or 1001-947 … | |
| 穆萨维 | Moussavi, Mir Hussein (1941-), candidate in Iran's disputed 2009 elections | |
| 穆加贝 | Robert Mugabe (1924-2019), Zimbabwean ZANU-PF politician, president of Zimbabwe 1987-2017 | |
| 穆通 | Mouton (name); Gabriel Mouton (1618-1694), French clergyman and scientist, pioneer of the … | |
| 西乌珠穆沁旗 | West Ujimqin banner or Baruun Üzemchin khoshuu in Xilingol League 錫林郭勒盟|锡林郭勒盟[Xi1 lin2 guo… | |
| 东乌珠穆沁旗 | East Ujimqin banner or Züün Üzemchin khoshuu in Xilingol League 錫林郭勒盟|锡林郭勒盟[Xi1 lin2 guo1 … | |
| 穆黑 | Islamophobe | |
| 穆圣 | the Prophet Muhammad |