mào
trade
Phonosemantic compound. 貝 represents the meaning and 卯 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 貿
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
(commercial) trade | ||
abbr. for 世界貿易組織|世界贸易组织 | ||
foreign trade | ||
rashly | ||
trade |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mru-s | muwH | mào | barter (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.6521% of movies
2532nd most common character in movies
1092nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8CBF |
Shuowen | “貿，易財也。从貝，丣聲。” |
Sources
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