旄

旄 (Kangxi radical 70, 方+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人竹山 (YSOHU), four-corner 0821₄, composition ⿸𭤨毛)

1. a kind of ancient flag decorated with yak tails
2. old

• 𣹪

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 482, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13642
• Dae Jaweon: page 844, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2177, character 6
• Unihan data for U+65C4

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *maːw, *maːws) : semantic 㫃 + phonetic 毛 (OC *maːw, *maːws)

Li Shizhen relates 旄 (máo, “banner”) to pronunciation máo of 牦／犛 (“yak”); he also sees a possible connection of both to 毛 (máo, “hair”):

• 【時珍曰】牦與旄同，或作毛。後漢書云冉䮾夷出牦牛，一名犣牛，重千斤，毛可爲旄。觀此則旄牛之名，蓋取諸此。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]

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  【时珍曰】牦与旄同，或作毛。后汉书云冉𩧪夷出牦牛，一名犣牛，重千斤，毛可为旄。观此则旄牛之名，盖取诸此。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

  From: The Compendium of Materia Medica , by Li Shizhen, 1578 CE

  【 Shízhēn yuē 】 máo yǔ máo tóng, huò zuò máo. Hòuhànshū yún Rǎnmáng Yí chū máoniú, yī míng lièniú, zhòng qiān jīn, máo kě wéi máo. Guān cǐ zé máoniú zhī míng, gài qǔ zhū cǐ.

  I, Shizhen, say: "Máo 牦 and máo 旄 are identical. Sometimes it's written as máo 毛. The Book of Later Han states that the máoníu 牦牛, also called lièníu 犣牛, come from the Rǎnmáng Yí. They weigh one thousand catties, and their hair can be used to decorate banners (máo 旄). This is possibly why we observe that they are named banner-bovines (máoníu 旄牛).

However, see 犛／牦 (máo) for alternative etymology.

旄

1. a kind of ancient flag decorated with yak tails

   • 王左杖黃鉞，右秉白旄以麾，曰：「逖矣，西土之人！」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     王左杖黄钺，右秉白旄以麾，曰：「逖矣，西土之人！」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Documents, circa 4^th – 3^rd century BCE

     Wáng zuǒ zhàng huángyuè, yòu bǐng báimáo yǐ huī, yuē: “Tì yǐ, xītǔ zhī rén!”

     The king wielded in his left hand a gilded ax and held in his right hand a white yak-tail-decorated banner to conduct (the troops); he said: "Far are ye come, men of the western lands!"

2. (obsolete) yak

   • 獸則𤛑旄貘犛，沈牛麈麋，赤首圜題，窮奇象犀。 [MSC, trad.]
     兽则𤛑旄貘牦，沈牛麈麋，赤首圜题，穷奇象犀。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 司馬相如 (Sima Xiangru) 《上林賦》 "Rhapsody on the Imperial Park", in 《史記》 Records of the Grand Historian. Translated based on Knechtges's (2008) version

     Shòu zé yóng máo mò máo/lí, shěnniú zhǔmí, chìshǒu yuántí, qióngqí xiàng xī.

     Its animals are: The zebus, hairy yaks, pandas, grunting yaks, plunging bulls, elaphures; red-headed, round-hoofed; extreme extraordinaire, elephants, and rhinoceroses.

• “旄”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. pennant/banner with a long-haired yak tail attached
2. yak tail
3. yak

• Go-on: もう (mō)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kun: はたかざり (hatakazari)、おいぼれ (oibore)

旄 • (mo) (hangeul 모, revised mo, McCune–Reischauer mo, Yale mo)

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旄: Hán Nôm readings: mao

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