毫

毫 U+6BEB, 毫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BEB ← 毪 [U+6BEA] CJK Unified Ideographs 毬 → [U+6BEC]

Translingual

Han character

毫 (radical 82 毛+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input X卜口月山 (XYRBU) or 卜口月山 (YRBU), four-corner 0071₄, composition ⿱⿳亠口冖毛)

References

• KangXi: page 593, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16831
• Dae Jaweon: page 985, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1999, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6BEB

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		毫

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (高) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
高	*kaːw
膏	*kaːw, *kaːws
篙	*kaːw
稿	*kaːwʔ
稾	*kaːwʔ, *kʰaːws
槁	*kaːwʔ, *kʰaːwʔ
縞	*kaːwʔ, *kaːws
暠	*kaːwʔ
槀	*kaːwʔ
藁	*kaːwʔ
燺	*kʰaːwʔ
薧	*kʰaːwʔ, *kʰaːws, *qʰaːw
犒	*kʰaːws
蒿	*qʰaːw
藃	*qʰaːws, *qʰraːw, *qʰraw
豪	*ɡaːw
毫	*ɡaːw
壕	*ɡaːw
濠	*ɡaːw
鎬	*ɡaːwʔ
滈	*ɡaːwʔ, *qʰraːwɢ
鄗	*ɡaːwʔ, *kʰraːw, *qʰaːwɢ
鰝	*ɡaːwʔ, *qʰaːwɢ
薃	*ɡaːwʔ
搞	*kruːʔ
敲	*kʰraːw, *kʰraːws
髇	*qʰraːw
嗃	*qʰraːw, *qʰraːws, *qʰaːwɢ
巐	*kʰl'awʔ
歊	*qʰraw, *qʰoːwɢ
謞	*qʰaːwɢ, *qʰraːwɢ
熇	*qʰaːwɢ, *qʰoːwɢ, *qʰoːɡ
碻	*kʰraːwɢ
塙	*kʰraːwɢ
毃	*kʰraːwɢ
翯	*qʰraːwɢ, *ɡraːwɢ, *ɡoːwɢ
瀥	*qʰraːwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): háo (hao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hou⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): hô / hô͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: háo
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˊ
    • Wade-Giles: hao²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haur
    • IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hou⁴
    • Yale: hòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: hou⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /hou̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hô
    • Tâi-lô: hô
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hooi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ho²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ho²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ho¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ho²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɤ²³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hô͘
    • Tâi-lô: hôo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoo
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔ²⁴/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 毫
Mandarin	Beijing	/xɑu³⁵/
	Harbin	/xau²⁴/
	Tianjin	/xɑu⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/xɔ⁴²/
	Qingdao	/xɔ⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/xau⁴²/
	Xi'an	/xau²⁴/
	Xining	/xɔ²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/xɔ⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/xɔ⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/xɔ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/xau²¹³/
	Chengdu	/xau³¹/
	Guiyang	/xao²¹/
	Kunming	/xɔ³¹/
	Nanjing	/xɔo²⁴/
	Hefei	/xɔ⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/xau¹¹/
	Pingyao	/xɔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/xɔ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɦɔ²³/
	Suzhou	/ɦæ¹³/
	Hangzhou	/ɦɔ²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/ɦɜ³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/xɔ⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/xə⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/xau¹³/
	Xiangtan	/ɦaɯ¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/hɑu²⁴/
Hakka	Meixian	/hau¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/ho¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/hou²¹/
	Nanning	/hu²¹/
	Hong Kong	/hou²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/ho³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/ho⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/au²¹/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/hau⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/hau³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦɑu/▼

Rime
Character	毫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡刀切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦaw/
Li Rong	/ɣɑu/
Wang Li	/ɣɑu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	háo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤaw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡaːw/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	毫
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	háo
Middle Chinese	‹ haw ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ˤaw/
English	fine animal 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	毫
Reading #	1/1
No.	3748
Phonetic component	高
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	豪
Old Chinese	/*ɡaːw/

Definitions

毫

1. fine hair
2. measure of length
3. 1/1000; the number 10^-3; the SI unit prefix milli-

Compounds

• 明察秋毫 (míngchá qiūháo)
• 毫不猶豫／毫不犹豫
• 毫伏
• 毫升 (háoshēng)

• 毫無／毫无 (háowú)
• 毫無疑問／毫无疑问 (háowú yíwèn)
• 毫秒 (háomiǎo)

• 毫米 (háomǐ)
• 絲毫／丝毫 (sīháo)
• 絲毫無損／丝毫无损

See also

• Chinese Numeral 毫
  • Next: 絲
  • Last: 厘

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

毫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: ごう (gō)
• Kan’on: こう (kō)
• Kun: すこし (sukoshi)

Compounds

• 白毫 (びゃくごう) (byakugō): urna

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Korean

Hanja

毫 • (ho) (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune-Reischauer ho, Yale ho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

毫 (hào)

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