毛

毛 U+6BDB, 毛
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BDB
← 毚
[U+6BDA] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 毜 →
[U+6BDC]

Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

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

Derived characters

  • Index:Chinese radical/毛

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
Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
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

Note:
  • mn̂g, mo͘, mâu - vernacular;
  • mô͘ - literary (including surname).
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
    雞毛 / 鸡毛 [Cantonese]  ―  gai1 mou4 [Jyutping]  ―  chicken feather
  2. mildew; mold
  3. (colloquial) one tenth of a yuan or dollar; ten cents; dime
  4. coarse; raw; semifinished
    毛茶  ―  máochá  ―  raw tea
  5. gross; overall
  6. small; little
  7. careless; unthinking
  8. panicked; scared; nervous
  9. angry; furious
  10. (of currency) to depreciate; to devalue
  11. (literary or dialectal) no; nothing
  12. A surname​.
    毛澤東 / 毛泽东  ―  Máo Zédōng  ―  Mao Zedong

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 角 (“ten cents; dime”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 角
Mandarin Beijing 毛
Taiwan 毛
Jinan 毛
Xi'an 毛
Wuhan 角
Chengdu 角
Yangzhou 角、毛
Hefei 毛、角
Cantonese Guangzhou 毫、毫子
Hong Kong 毫、毫子
Hong Kong (Weitou) 毫子
Taishan 毫、毫子
Yangjiang 毫、毫子
Kuala Lumpur 角
Gan Nanchang 角
Hakka Meixian 毫、角
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 角
Liudui (S. Sixian) 角
Hsinchu (Hailu) 角
Dongshi (Dabu) 角
Zhuolan (Raoping) 角
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 毫
Hong Kong 毫
Senai 角
Jin Taiyuan 毛
Min Bei Jian'ou 角
Min Dong Fuzhou 角
Min Nan Xiamen 角
Quanzhou 角
Zhangzhou 角
Chaozhou 角、毫
Johor Bahru 角
Wu Suzhou 角
Wenzhou 角
Xiang Changsha 角
Shuangfeng 角

Usage notes

For hair on the human head, use 頭髮／头发 (tóufa) instead.

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, rōmaji 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, rōmaji mō)

  1. a kind of unit

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  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

Korean

Hanja

毛 • (mo)

  1. hair, fur

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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