毛

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Han character

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

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/毛

Descendants

• も
• モ

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: 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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		毛

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 毛
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

Characters in the same phonetic series (毛) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
毛	*maːw, *maːws
髦	*maːw
旄	*maːw, *maːws
芼	*maːw, *maːws
氂	*rɯ, *maːw
枆	*maːw
酕	*maːw
牦	*maːw
耄	*maːws
覒	*maːws
眊	*maːws, *mraːwɢ
耗	*hmaːws
秏	*hmaːws, *hmɯːbs
毣	*mraːwɢ, *moːwɢ

Pictogram (象形) – feather or hair.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 毛

1. hair (of humans or animals); fur; feather (Classifier: 根 m; 條／条 c)

   雞毛／鸡毛 [Cantonese]  ―  gai¹ mou⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  chicken feather

2. mildew; mold
3. (colloquial) jiao; one tenth of a yuan or dollar; ten cents; dime

   一毛錢／一毛钱  ―  yī máo qián  ―  a jiao / ten cents

   三塊兩毛／三块两毛  ―  sān kuài liǎng máo  ―  three yuan and two jiao / three dollars and twenty cents

4. coarse; raw; semifinished

   毛茶  ―  máochá  ―  raw tea

5. gross; overall
6. small; little
7. careless; unthinking
8. panicked; scared; nervous
9. angry; furious
10. (of currency) to depreciate; to devalue
11. (Mainland China, colloquial or slang) no; nothing; damn all; my ass

    有毛用  ―  yǒu máo yòng  ―  be not effective or useful, to be of damn-all use

    管毛用  ―  guǎn máo yòng  ―  be not effective or useful, to be of damn-all use

12. a surname

    毛澤東／毛泽东  ―  Máo Zédōng  ―  Mao Zedong

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 角 (“ten cents; dime”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		角
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	毛
	Taiwan	毛
	Harbin	毛
	Singapore	毛
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	毛
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	毛
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	毛
	Xi'an	毛, 角
	Xining	毛, 角
	Xuzhou	毛, 角
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	毛
	Ürümqi	毛
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	角, 毛
	Wuhan	角
	Guiyang	角, 毛
	Guilin	毛
	Liuzhou	毛
	Nanning (Wuming)	角
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	毛
	Yangzhou	角, 毛
	Nantong	角
	Hefei	毛, 角
Cantonese	Guangzhou	毫子, 毫, 角
	Hong Kong	毫子, 毫
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	毫子
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	毫
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	毫子
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	毫子
	Macau	毫子
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	毫子
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	毫子
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	毫子
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	毫子
	Foshan	毫子
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	毫
	Foshan (Shunde)	毫子
	Foshan (Sanshui)	毫子
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	毫子
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	毫子
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	毫子
	Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka)	毫
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	毫
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	毫
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	毫
	Taishan	毫, 毫子
	Kaiping (Chikan)	毫
	Enping (Niujiang)	毫
	Heshan (Yayao)	毫子
	Dongguan	毫子
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	毫子
	Shaoguan	毫子, 毫
	Yunfu	毫
	Yangjiang	毫子, 毫
	Yangjiang (Yangdong)	角
	Yangdong (Yashao)	角
	Yangchun	毫
	Yangxi	角, 毫
	Xinyi	毫子
	Lianjiang	毫子
	Nanning	毫子
	Wuzhou	毫子
	Yulin	角
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	角子
	Beihai	角
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	毫, 角
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	毫
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	角
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	角
	Singapore (Guangfu)	毫, 毫子
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	十錢
	Móng Cái	毫
Gan	Nanchang	角
	Lichuan	角
	Pingxiang	角
Hakka	Meixian	毫, 毫子, 角
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	毫子
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	毫子
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	毫子
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	毫子
	Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua)	毫子
	Yudu	角
	Shicheng	角
	Shangyou (Shexi)	角
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	角
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	角
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	角
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	角
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	角
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	毫
	Hong Kong	毫
	Luchuan (Daqiao)	角
	Senai (Huiyang)	角
Huizhou	Jixi	角
Jin	Taiyuan	毛
	Xinzhou	毛
Northern Min	Jian'ou	角
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	角
	Fuqing	角囝
Southern Min	Xiamen	角
	Quanzhou	角
	Zhangzhou	角
	Tainan	角
	Penang (Hokkien)	鈸
	Singapore (Hokkien)	角
	Pingnan (Shangdu)	毛
	Chaozhou	角, 毫
	Shantou	角, 毫
	Bangkok (Teochew)	角
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	角
	Singapore (Teochew)	角
	Wenchang	角
	Haikou	角
	Singapore (Hainanese)	角
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	毫子
	Zhongshan (Sanxiang)	毫紙
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	毫子, 角
Northern Pinghua	Guilin (Dahe)	毛
Wu	Shanghai	角
	Shanghai (Chongming)	角
	Suzhou	角
	Danyang	角
	Wenzhou	角
	Jinhua	角
Xiang	Changsha	角, 毛
	Loudi	毛
	Shuangfeng	角
	Quanzhou	角, 毛

Usage notes

For hair on the human head, use 頭髮／头发 (tóufa) instead.

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

毛

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

1. hair, fur

Readings

• Go-on: もう (mō, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kun: け (ke, 毛, Jōyō)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
毛
け Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Noun

毛(け) • (ke) 

1. hair, fur

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
毛
もう Grade: 2
on'yomi

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 毛 (maw).

Noun

毛(もう) • (mō) 

1. a kind of unit

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Korean

Hanja

毛 (eumhun 터럭 모 (teoreok mo))

1. hanja form^? of 모 (“hair”)

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Okinawan

Kanji

毛

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

• Kun: きー (kī, 毛)

Etymology

Cognate with Japanese 毛 (ke).

Noun

毛 (hiragana きー, romaji kī)

1. hair, fur

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 眉毛 (まゆぎ, mayugi, “eyebrow”)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 毛 (mao, mau, mào)

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