摸索 mōsuǒ▶ tantear; buscar a tientas

Stroke order

摸索 is written in 23 strokes across 2 characters.

• 摸 — 13 strokes
• 索 — 10 strokes

Senses

1. to feel about
2. to grope about
3. to fumble
4. to do things slowly

Related words

• 思索Pensamiento
• 抚摸golpe; caricia; derrame cerebral
• 探索explorar
• 索取solicitud
• 索性Simplemente
• 线索Pista

摸索 is pronounced mōsuǒ and means “tantear; buscar a tientas”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 摸索 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.