Chinese Character Wiki
毛

máo

hair

Pictograph of a feather.

Evolution

毛 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
毛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

毛  

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])

毛  

Máo

surname Mao

Most common words with 毛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

毛

hair

毛主席

Chairman Mao

毛病

fault

毛衣

(wool) sweater

毛巾

towel

Component uses

Meaning component in 18 characters (3 verified)

表 毫 笔 毯 毡 氈 蚝 氅 牦 旄 毽 氆 氇 毵 氍 毳 毹 毪

Sound component in 8 characters (0 verified)

耗 髦 耄 蚝 氂 牦 旄 酕

Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)

尾

Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)

笔

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。”


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