mǎo
4th terrestrial branch
Original meaning:
butcher's knife
Depicts two knives side-by-side. Based on the original meaning "butcher's knife". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
Modernmǎo
4th terrestrial branch; period from 5-7 a.m.; mortise (slot cut into wood to receive a tenon); 4th earthly branch: 5-7 a.m., 2nd solar month (6th March-4th April), year of the Rabbit; ancient Chinese compass point: 90° (east); variant of 鉚|铆[mǎo]; to exert one's strength
mǎo
variant of 卯[mǎo]
mǎo
old variant of 卯[mǎo]
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to fasten with rivets | ||
twenty-eighth year H4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2011 or 2071 | ||
fourth year D4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1987 or 2047 | ||
fifty-second year B4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1975 or 2035 | ||
fortieth year J4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1963 or 2023 |
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mˤruʔ | maewX | mǎo | 4th earthly branch |
Not found in HSK word list
3926th most common character in books
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+536F |
Shuowen | “卯，冒也。二月萬物冒地而出，象開門之形。故二月為天門。，古文卯。” |
