máo, mào
a kind of ancient flag
A flag 方 made of fur 毛; 毛 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 旄
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
banner decorated with animal's tail | ||
white banner and yellow battle-ax (idiom); refers to military expedition |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mˤaw | maw | máo | ox-tail pennon |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6107th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+65C4 |
Shuowen | “旄，幢也。从，从毛。毛亦聲。” |
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