Mao

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mao"

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Mandarin 毛 (Máo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʊ̯/
• Rhymes: -aʊ

Proper noun

Mao

1. from Mandarin, usually referring to Mao Zedong.
2. A card game, named after Mao Zedong, in which players attempt to shed all their cards without violating certain unspoken rules.

Derived terms

• Maoism
• Maoist

Translations

Mao: the Chinese surname

• Arabic: ماو (mao)
• Armenian: Մաո (Mao)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毛 (zh) (Máo)

• Finnish: Mao
• Georgian: მაო (mao)
• Hebrew: מאו
• Hindi: माओ (māo)
• Japanese: 毛 (ja) (もう, Mō)
• Khmer: ម៉ៅ (km) (maw)
• Korean: 마오 (Mao) (transliteration), 모 (ko) (Mo) (毛 (ko)) (cognate)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Manchu: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: माओ (māo)
• Mongolian: Мао (Mao)
• Russian: Ма́о (ru) (Máo)
• Thai: เหมา (măo)
• Tibetan: མའོ (ma'o)
• Uyghur: ماۋ (maw)
• Vietnamese: Mao (毛 (vi))
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Zhuang: Mauz

Anagrams

• -oma, Amo, Amo., MOA, moa, oma

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.o/
• IPA^(key): /maʊ̯/ (never in isolation, but sometimes when followed by another name)

Proper noun

Mao ? (genitive Maos)

1. Mao; a Chinese surname, usually referring to Mao Zedong (in German Mao Tse-tung or rarer Mao Zedong).

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Japanese

Romanization

Mao

1. Rōmaji transcription of まお