mò
froth
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 末 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 沫
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
foam | ||
spittle | ||
foam | ||
styrofoam | ||
Guo Moruo (1892-1978), writer, communist party intellectual and cultural apparatchik |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mˤat | mat | mò | foam, spittle |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.8123% of movies
2648th most common character in movies
2495th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+6CAB |
Shuowen | “沫,水。出蜀西徼外,東南入江。从水,末聲。” |
Sources
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