to feel with the hand / to touch / to stroke / to grope / to steal / to abstract
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to touch
to gently caress and stroke / to pet / to fondle
(idiom) surreptitious / sneaky
to feel about / to grope about / to fumble / to do things slowly
to suss out / to figure out / to ascertain
to grope about in the dark
to fathom / to make sense of / to grasp
to engage in petty theft
lit. to follow the vine to get to the melon / to track sth following clues
to reckon / to guess
(idiom) unpredictable / elusive / hard to pin down
to fish in troubled water (idiom) / to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain
can't touch / can't reach / (fig.) unable to get a grasp of
can't make head or tail of
to be unable to make any sense of the matter / to be at a loss
to play mahjong
touch bar (hostess bar that allows physical contact)
to have a clear view (of a situation) / to fish for information / fact-finding
to draw lots / raffle / lottery
to be able to touch / tangible
thorough search
to go through challenging experiences / to become seasoned (in one's profession etc)
to draw a tile (at mahjong) / to play mahjong
to feel sb's pulse
to wade across the river, feeling for footholds as one goes (idiom) / to advance cautiously, step by step / to feel one's way forward
to touch an elephant (of proverbial blind people)
(idiom) military title said to have existed in the Han dynasty, allegedly granted to officials tasked with retrieving gold from tombs to fund military campaigns / (in popular fiction) tomb raider
to catch fish / (fig.) to loaf on the job / to be slack / to take it easy
lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom) / fig. at a total loss
see 丈二和尚，摸不著頭腦|丈二和尚，摸不着头脑[]
not acquainted with the situation / not up on things
surreptitious / sneaky
to imitate the dog and steal chicken (idiom) / to pilfer / to dally with women / to have affairs
(of sb in an unfamiliar situation) helpless and disoriented
to touch an elephant with closed eyes (idiom) / to proceed blindly
(dialect) to savor / to test the taste of / (fig.) to ponder upon / to mull over
to look for / to explore / to probe
to feel for sth / to grope
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27