máo
hair
Pictograph of a feather.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
máo
hair, fur, feathers; coarse; hair; feather; down; wool; mildew; mold; coarse or semifinished; young; raw; careless; unthinking; nervous; scared; (of currency) to devalue or depreciate; classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiǎo] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fēn])
Máo
surname Mao
Component uses
Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)
Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.mˤaw | maw | máo | hair |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 45.9234% of movies
861st most common character in movies
623rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Unicode | U+6BDB |
Shuowen | “毛,眉髮之屬及獸毛也。象形。” |
Sources
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