máo
reeds
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 矛 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 茅
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
reeds | ||
Maotai liquor 茅臺酒|茅台酒 | ||
thatched cottage | ||
to rank among the best | ||
Dartmouth (place name) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.mˤru | maew | máo | kind of grass; 'thatch' |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.1144% of movies
2843rd most common character in movies
2339th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+8305 |
Shuowen | “茅，菅也。从艸，矛聲。” |
Sources
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