發毛

See also: 发毛

Chinese

		to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue; to develop	hair; fur; one tenth of a yuan or dollar
trad. (發毛)		發	毛
simp. (发毛)		发	毛

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fāmáo

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄚ ㄇㄠˊ

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoat-mn̂g

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fāmáo
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄚ ㄇㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: famáo
    • Wade–Giles: fa¹-mao²
    • Yale: fā-máu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: famau
    • Palladius: фамао (famao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fä⁵⁵ mɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoat-mn̂g
    • Tâi-lô: huat-mn̂g
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoatmngg
    • IPA (Xiamen): /huat̚³²⁻⁴ mŋ̍²⁴/

Verb

發毛

1. (Mandarin) to get scared; to be panicky

Etymology 2

Verb

發毛

1. (dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Hakka, Jin, Wu, Xiang) to get angry

Etymology 3

毛 refers to the furry appearance of mold. Compare Mandarin 長毛／长毛 (chángmáo, “to grow mold”).

Alternatively, 毛 may come from 殕 (*p- > m-). Compare Min Nan 上殕 (chhiūⁿ-phú, “to become moldy”).

毛 is commonly believed to be from English mold, but this is unlikely.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): faat³ mou^4-1

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): fat¹ mau²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: faat³ mou^4-1
    • Yale: faat mōu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faat⁸ mou^4-1
    • Guangdong Romanization: fad³ mou^4-1
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːt̚³ mou̯²¹⁻⁵⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: fat¹ mau²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fat̚³³ ᵐbau⁵⁵/

Verb

發毛

1. (Cantonese) to become moldy or mildewed

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 發霉 (“to become mouldy”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		發霉
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	長醭兒, 發霉, 長毛兒
	Taiwan	發霉
	Singapore	發霉
Cantonese	Guangzhou	發毛
	Hong Kong	發毛
	Taishan	發毛
Gan	Nanchang	發霉
Hakka	Meixian	發霉, 生毛
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	發毛, 生毛
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	生菇
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	生菇
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	生菇
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	生菇
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	生菇
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	生菇
Jin	Taiyuan	發霉
Northern Min	Jian'ou	生殕
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	發殕, 發霉
Southern Min	Xiamen	臭殕, 生殕, 上殕, 生菇
	Quanzhou	臭殕, 生殕, 上殕
	Zhangzhou	臭殕, 生殕, 上殕, 生菇, 生毛
	Tainan	生菇, 上殕, 上霉
	Penang (Hokkien)	生菇
	Manila (Hokkien)	臭殕, 生殕, 上殕
	Shantou	生菇
	Jieyang	生菇
	Haifeng	生菇, 發菇
	Singapore (Teochew)	生菇
	Leizhou	生菇, 生菇毛猴
	Haikou	生菇, 發菇
Wu	Shanghai	發霉, 霉脫
	Wenzhou	霉

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