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毛

máo

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máo · mou4 (Jyutping)

  1. hair
  2. feather
  3. down
  4. wool
  5. mildew
  6. mold
  7. coarse or semifinished
  8. young
  9. raw
  10. careless
  11. unthinking
  12. nervous
  13. scared
  14. (of currency) to devalue or depreciate
  15. classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiao3] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fen1])
  16. surname Mao

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

毛

Meaning
hair, fur, feathers; coarse
Radical
毛
Strokes
4
Components
⿻乇一
Cangjie
HQU
Four-corner
2071.4

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