Chinese Character Wiki

牦

máo

tail

The fur 毛 of an ox 牛; 毛 also provides the pronunciation

Components
牛 meaning component

牛  Meaning component

niú

  

cow

毛 sound,meaning component

毛  Sound Meaning component

máo

  

hair

Evolution

牦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
牦 Seal script Xin dynasty (9-23 AD)

Seal script

Xin dynasty (9-23 AD)
牦 Seal script Xin dynasty (9-23 AD)

Seal script

Xin dynasty (9-23 AD)
牦 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
牦 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

牦 (氂) 

máo

tail; hair; yak; yak (Bos grunniens)

Most common words with 牦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

牦牛

yak (Bos grunniens)

牦

yak (Bos grunniens)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5337th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

氂

Unicode

U+7266


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