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U+6BDB, 毛
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BDB

[U+6BDA]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6BDC]
U+2F51, ⽑
KANGXI RADICAL FUR

[U+2F50]
Kangxi Radicals
[U+2F52]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
4 strokes
Stroke order

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 82, +0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹手山 (HQU), four-corner 20714)

Derived characters[edit]

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 591, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16772
  • Dae Jaweon: page 983, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1994, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6BDB

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character
Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – feather or hair.

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/r-m(u/i/ja)l (hair; fur; feather); related to (OC *mril, “eyebrow”) and cognate with Manipuri ꯃꯨꯅ (mun, pubic hair), Garo খিমিল (khimil, hair; fur), Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔ-məw¹ (body hair) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation[edit]


Note:
  • mou4-1 - “hair; mold”.
  • Gan
  • Hakka
  • Jin
  • Min Bei
  • Min Dong
  • Min Nan
  • Note:
    • mn̂g, mo͘, mâu - vernacular;
    • mô͘ - literary (including surname).
    Note:
    • mo5 - vernacular;
    • mao5 - literary.
  • Wu
  • Xiang

  • Rime
    Character
    Reading # 1/2 2/2
    Initial () (4) (4)
    Final () (89) (89)
    Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
    Openness (開合) Open Open
    Division () I I
    Fanqie
    Baxter maw mawH
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang
    /mɑu/ /mɑuH/
    Pan
    Wuyun
    /mɑu/ /mɑuH/
    Shao
    Rongfen
    /mɑu/ /mɑuH/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank
    /maw/ /mawH/
    Li
    Rong
    /mɑu/ /mɑuH/
    Wang
    Li
    /mɑu/ /mɑuH/
    Bernard
    Karlgren
    /mɑu/ /mɑuH/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex
    máo mào
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex
    mou4 mou6
    BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)
    máo
    Middle
    Chinese
    ‹ maw ›
    Old
    Chinese
    /*C.mˁaw/
    English hair

    Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

    * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
    * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
    * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
    * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

    * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
    Zhengzhang system (2003)
    Character
    Reading # 1/2 2/2
    No. 8780 8791
    Phonetic
    component
    Rime
    group
    Rime
    subdivision
    1 1
    Corresponding
    MC rime
    Old
    Chinese
    /*maːw/ /*maːws/

    Definitions[edit]

    1. hair (of humans or animals); fur; feather (Classifier: m;  c)
      [Cantonese]  ―  gai1 mou4 [Jyutping]  ―  chicken feather
    2. (dialectal) hair on the head
    3. mildew; mold
    4. (colloquial) jiao; one tenth of a yuan or dollar; ten cents; dime
        ―  máo qián  ―  a jiao / ten cents
        ―  sān kuài liǎng máo  ―  three yuan and two jiao / three dollars and twenty cents
        ―  máodǎng  ―  wumao
    5. coarse; raw; semifinished
        ―  máochá  ―  raw tea
    6. (of an amount) gross
      Antonym: (jìng)
        ―  máo  ―  gross profit
        ―  máozhòng  ―  gross weight
    7. rough; sketchy
        ―  máo  ―  to make a rough estimate
    8. small; little
      毛毛  ―  máomáo  ―  drizzle
      孩子  ―  máoháizi  ―  mere child
    9. careless; unthinking
        ―  máoshǒumáojiǎo  ―  to be careless
    10. panicked; scared; nervous
        ―  bǎ wǒ xià máo le  ―  to have scared me
    11. angry; furious
    12. (of currency) depreciated
    13. (Mainland China, colloquial or slang) no; nothing; damn all; my ass
        ―  yǒu máo yòng  ―  be not effective or useful, to be of damn-all use
        ―  guǎn máo yòng  ―  be not effective or useful, to be of damn-all use
    14. (Cantonese, colloquial, always with the classifier) nothing; damn all; jack shit; bugger all (Classifier: )
      Synonyms: ,
      [Cantonese]  ―  nei5 sik1 tiu4 mou4 me1? [Jyutping]  ―  Do you know anything at all?
    15. (ACG) hair (in unnatural colours)
        ―  bái máo  ―  [the character] with white-coloured hair
        ―  jiǎmáo  ―  wig
    16. a surname
        ―  Máo Zédōng  ―  Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), founder of the People's Republic of China

    Usage notes[edit]

    In Standard Chinese, for hair on the human head, use 頭髮头发 (tóufa) instead.

    Synonyms[edit]

    • (hair on the head):
    • (jiao):

    Compounds[edit]

    Descendants[edit]

    • Arabic: مَاو(māw)
    • English: Mao
    • French: Mao
    • German: Mao
    • Italian: Mao
    • Persian: مائو(mâ'u)
    • Russian: Ма́о (Máo)
    • Turkish: Mao
    • Uyghur: ماۋ(maw)

    References[edit]

    Japanese[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    1. hair, fur

    Readings[edit]

    Etymology 1[edit]

    Kanji in this term

    Grade: 2
    kun’yomi

    From Old Japanese. First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.[1] Ultimately from Proto-Japonic *kay.

    Appears in compounds from the Man'yōshū completed sometime around 759 CE with the reading ⟨ka⟩, seen in 白髪 (shiraga, white hair)[1][2] and (katsura, wig, from "hair vine", possibly in reference to how they are made).[1][3] This analysis suggests an ancient bound form *⟨ka⟩, changing to ⟨ke2⟩, perhaps by fusion of emphatic nominal particle (i), seen in nouns such as (kami, god, from kamu + i) and (me, eye, from ma + i):

    */ka.i/*/kai/⟨ke2*/kəɨ//ke/

    Cognate with Proto-Ryukyuan *ke (hair, fur).

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    () (ke

    1. [from 720] hair, fur

    Etymology 2[edit]

    Kanji in this term
    もう
    Grade: 2
    on’yomi

    From Middle Chinese (maw).

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    (もう) (

    1. one thousandth
      1. one thousandth of a (sun) (approximately 0.0303 mm)
      2. one thousandth of a (monme) (exactly 3.75 mg)
      3. one thousandth of a (wari) (0.01 percent)

    References[edit]

    1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
    2. ^ 白髪”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten)[1] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, →ISBN
    3. ^ ”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten)[2] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, →ISBN
    4. 4.0 4.1 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
    5. 5.0 5.1 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

    Korean[edit]

    Hanja[edit]

    (eumhun 터럭 (teoreok mo))

    1. Hanja form? of (hair).

    Okinawan[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    Readings[edit]

    Etymology[edit]

    From Proto-Ryukyuan *ke, from Proto-Japonic *kay. Cognate with Japanese (ke).

    Noun[edit]

    (きー) (

    1. hair, fur

    Derived terms[edit]

    Vietnamese[edit]

    Han character[edit]

    : Hán Nôm readings: mao, mau, mào

    1. chữ Hán form of mao.
    2. Nôm form of mau (quick, fast).
    3. Nôm form of máu (blood).