扪 (mén): to lay hands on

Meanings

1 to lay hands on
2 to feel; to touch

Characters

扪

mén

to feel; to touch

Examples

HSK 4

他在黑暗中扪着墙走。

Tā zài hēi'àn zhōng mén zhe qiáng zǒu.

He felt his way along the wall in the dark.

HSK 7-9

扪心自问就是问自己的良心。

Mén xīn zìwèn jiùshì wèn zìjǐ de liángxīn.

To examine one's conscience means to ask one's own heart.

Tips

usage

扪 is a literary word for touching or feeling with the hand, most familiar in 扪心自问, to lay a hand on one's heart and search one's conscience.

Components

radical

扌 shǒu

hand

扌 is the hand radical 手 in left-side form. Touching and feeling are done with the hand, so the hand radical carries the meaning.

phonetic

门 mén

door; gate

门 supplies the sound mén, matching its own reading exactly. It works purely as the phonetic element with no meaning contribution here.

Stroke Order

扪 mén

Related Words

扪心自问 ménxīn-zìwèn #13,011

to ask oneself honestly / to search one's heart / to examine one's conscience

触摸 chùmō HSK 7-9 #7,443

to touch / to feel (with hands)

打动 dǎdòng HSK 6 #4,872

to move (emotionally); to touch (someone's heart) / to convince; to win over

冻 dòng HSK 5 #4,572

to freeze / to feel very cold / frozen

堵 dǔ HSK 4 #4,112

to block; to stop up; to plug / to be stuck (in traffic) / to feel stifled or suffocated

编排 biānpái HSK 7-9 #5,284

to arrange / to lay out / to choreograph / to organize in sequence

陈 chén #3,754

Chen (surname) / to display / to lay out / old; stale

触 chù #3,749

to touch; to contact / to stir up; to trigger

端 duān HSK 6 #3,547

end; extremity; beginning / to hold something level with both hands; to carry / upright; proper

安心 ānxīn HSK 7-9 #5,420

at ease; relieved / to feel reassured; to set one's mind at rest