mào
thick
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 戊 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 茂
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
luxuriant | ||
lush | ||
lush | ||
Maoming prefecture-level city in Guangdong | ||
in one's prime |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.0091% of movies
3192nd most common character in movies
2309th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+8302 |
Shuowen | “茂,艸豐盛。从艸,戊聲。” |
Sources
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