Chinese Character Wiki

昴

mǎo

one of the 28 constellations

Components
日 meaning component

日  Meaning component

rì

  

sun

sun

卯 sound component

卯  Sound component

mǎo

  

4th terrestrial branch

Evolution

昴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
昴 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
昴 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
昴 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

昴  

mǎo

one of the 28 constellations; the Pleiades

Most common words with 昴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

昴

the Pleiades

昴星团

Pleiades M45

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤruʔ

maewX

mǎo

the Pleiades


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5682nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+6634

Shuowen

“昴，白虎宿星。从日，卯聲。”


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