Translingual

Han character

冒 (radical 13 冂+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日月山 (ABU), four-corner 6060₀, composition ⿱日目 (J) or ⿱冃目 (GTKV))

Derived characters

• 帽

References

• KangXi: page 129, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1538
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1499, character 12
• Unihan data for U+5192

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 冒
Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 冃 ‎(“hat”) + 目 ‎(“eyes”) – a hat over the eyes, not looking ahead – rash. Etymology clearer in alternative form 冐; in this form 冃 more closely resembles 日.

Etymology 1

Original meaning was “to cover”.

Sino-Tibetan. Schuessler (2007) connects it with Proto-Sino-Tibetan *muːŋ ~ r/s-muːk ‎(“sky, clouds, fog, dark, covered”), whence Burmese မိုး ‎(mui:, “sky; rain; to hold something over the head; roof”), Tibetan མུ ‎(mu), དམུ ‎(dmu), རྨུ ‎(rmu), སྨུ ‎(smu, “(archaic) sky”).

Derivative: 帽 (OC *muːɡs, “hat”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

冒

1. ^† to cover
2. ^†cloth used to dress a corpse; sack for corpses
3. ^† to wear a hat
4. ^†Original form of 帽 (mào, “hat, scarf”).
5. ^† to pretend to be

   假冒  ―  jiǎmào  ―  fake

   冒名  ―  màomíng  ―  to go under someone else's name

6. to risk; to brave; to face

   冒險 / 冒险  ―  màoxiǎn  ―  to adventure

   冒雨  ―  màoyǔ  ―  to brave the rain

7. ^†bold; thoughtless; boldly

   冒失  ―  màoshī  ―  thoughtlessly

8. ^† to encroach on; to violate

   冒犯  ―  màofàn  ―  to offend

9. ^† to receive; to suffer from
10. to emit; to give off; to send out

    冒煙 / 冒烟  ―  màoyān  ―  to give off smoke

11. (Mandarin) to appear; to emerge
12. (dialectal Mandarin, of water) to boil
13. (dialectal Mandarin, Wu) to vomit or to have diarrhoea
14. (dialectal Mandarin) to cover rice or noodles with vegetables and meat; to put broth over noodles or rice

    冒菜  ―  màocài  ―  maocai [a local dish of Sichuan]

15. ^†Substitute character for 懋 (“to encourage”).
16. ^†Substitute character for 芼 (“name of a vegetable”).
17. ^†Original form of 瑁 (“ceremonial jade”).

Etymology 2

“Covetous”. Compare 每 (OC *mɯːʔ, “to covet”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

冒

1. ^†Original form of 媢 (“to envy”).
2. ^† to be greedy for; covetous

Etymology 3

Transcription character, preserving the original pronunciation at the time of borrowing.

Pronunciation

Definitions

冒

1. Only used in 冒頓／冒顿 (“name of a Xiongnu chieftain”).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. risk

Readings

• Goon: もう (mō), もく (moku)
• Kan’on: ぼう (bō), ぼく (boku)
• Kun: おかす (okasu), おおう (oou)

Korean

Hanja

冒 • ‎(mo, mok) (hangeul 모, 목, revised mo, mok, McCune-Reischauer mo, mok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

冒 (mạo, mào, mẹo)

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