毛 (máo): meaning and stroke order
毛 (máo) means hair, feather, down, wool, mildew, mold, coarse or semifinished, young, raw, careless.
毛
- Simplified
- 毛
- Traditional
- 毛 (same form)
- Pinyin
- máo
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Stroke order of 毛
毛
- Máo surname Mao
- máo hair; feather
- 4 strokes
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Meaning of 毛
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máo
- hair
- feather
- down
- wool
- mildew
- mold
- coarse or semifinished
- young
- raw
- careless
- unthinking
- nervous
- scared
- (of currency) to devalue or depreciate
- classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiao3] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fen1])
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Máo
- surname Mao
Radical and structure
- 毛
- Radical 毛 (Kangxi radical 82) · 4 strokes
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 毛
- 毛笔 máo bǐ writing brush; CL:枝[zhi1],管[guan3]
- 汗毛 hàn máo hair; soft hair
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).