Chinese Character Wiki
冒

mào

risk

Original meaning: 

hat

Pictograph of a hat over an eye. Based on the original meaning "hat". The meaning later shifted to "cover", "feign", "offend", and "risk".

Components
冃 iconic component

冃  Iconic component

mào

  

cap

目 iconic component

目  Iconic component

mù

  

eye

Evolution

冒 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
冒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
冒 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
冒 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

冒  

mào

risk, brave, dare; to emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth); to brave; to face; reckless; to falsely adopt (sb's identity etc); to feign; (literary) to cover

冒  

Mào

surname Mao

冒 (冐) 

mào

old variant of 冒[mào]

Most common words with 冒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

冒

to emit

冒险

to take risks

感冒

to catch cold

冒犯

to offend

假冒

to impersonate

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)

帽

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

瑁 勖

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤuk-s

mawH

mào

to look down on; covetous

*mˤuk-s

mawH

mào

covering


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 50.1041% of movies

920th most common character in movies

1222nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+5192

Shuowen

“冒，冡而前也。从冃，从目。，古文冒。”


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