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Mythic Mandarin

冒 (mào): meaning and stroke order

冒 (mào) means old variant of 冒, surname Mao, to emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth).

冒

Simplified
冒
Traditional
冐, 冒
Pinyin
mào

Stroke order of 冒

冒

  • mào old variant of 冒[mao4]
  • Mào surname Mao
  • mào to emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth); to brave; to face
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 冐

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 冒

  1. mào Traditional 冐
    • old variant of 冒[mao4]
  2. Mào
    • surname Mao
  3. mào
    • to emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth)
    • to brave; to face
    • (bound form) reckless
    • to falsely adopt (sb's identity etc); to feign
    • (literary) to cover

Radical and structure

冒
Radical 冂 (Kangxi radical 13) · 9 strokes · 冃 on top, 目 below

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 冒

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).