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毛

毛

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

毛 (radical 82 毛+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹手山 (HQU), four-corner 20714)

  1. Kangxi radical #82, ⽑ ‎(“fur”).

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 591, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16772
  • Dae Jaweon: page 983, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1994, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6BDB

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 毛

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 毛
Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (毛) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
毛 *maːw, *maːws
髦 *maːw
旄 *maːw, *maːws
芼 *maːw, *maːws
氂 *rɯ, *maːw
枆 *maːw
酕 *maːw
牦 *maːw
耄 *maːws
覒 *maːws
眊 *maːws, *mraːwɢ
耗 *hmaːws
秏 *hmaːws, *hmɯːbs
毣 *mraːwɢ, *moːwɢ

Pictogram (象形) – feather or hair.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 毛 毛
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 明 (4) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 豪 (89) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 莫袍切 莫報切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mɑu/ /mɑuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mɑu/ /mɑuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mɑu/ /mɑuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /maw/ /mawH/
Li
Rong		 /mɑu/ /mɑuH/
Wang
Li		 /mɑu/ /mɑuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mɑu/ /mɑuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 máo mào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 毛
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 máo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ maw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.mˤaw/
English 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 毛 毛
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 8780 8791
Phonetic
component		 毛 毛
Rime
group		 宵 宵
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 毛 冃
Old
Chinese		 /*maːw/ /*maːws/

Definitions

毛

  1. hair (of humans or animals); fur; feather
  2. mildew; mold
  3. (informal) Synonym of 角 (jiǎo, “one tenth of a yuan”).
  4. coarse; raw; semifinished
  5. gross; overall
  6. small; little
  7. careless; unthinking
  8. panicked; scared; nervous
  9. angry; furious
  10. (of currency) to depreciate; to devalue
  11. A surname​.
    毛澤東 / 毛泽东  ―  Máo Zédōng  ―  Mao Zedong

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

毛

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. hair, fur

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
毛
け
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

毛 ‎(hiragana け, romaji ke)

  1. hair, fur

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
毛
もう
Grade: 2
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 毛 ‎(maw).

Pronunciation

Noun

毛 ‎(hiragana もう, romaji mō)

  1. a kind of unit

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

毛 • ‎(mo)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 모 (revised: mo, McCune-Reischauer: mo, Yale: mo)
  • Name (hangeul): 털()
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Okinawan

Kanji

毛 ‎(hiragana きー, romaji kii)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese 毛 ‎(ke).

Noun

毛 ‎(hiragana きー, romaji kii)

  1. hair, fur

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

毛 (mao, mau, mào)

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