毫

See also: 亳

Translingual

Han character

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

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 593, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16831
• Dae Jaweon: page 985, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): 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

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 毫

1. fine hair
2. a measure of length, equal to 100 micrometres
3. milli- (SI unit prefix)
4. a unit of weight equal to one tenth of a 釐 (lí, “cash”)
5. (Cantonese, Hakka, Teochew) one tenth of a yuan or dollar; 10 cents; dime

   六毫幾／六毫几 [Cantonese]  ―  luk⁶ hou⁴ gei² [Jyutping]  ―  60-something cents

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

Descendants

• → Classical Mongolian: ᠬᠣᠤ (qou)
  • Mongolian: ᠬᠣᠤ (qou)

See also

SI prefix
Last		Next
釐	毫	微 (wēi)

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

毫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ごう (gō)
• Kan-on: こう (kō)
• Kun: すこし (sukoshi, 毫し)

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

(deprecated template usage) 毫 (hào)

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