毛

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Radical 82 毛

毛 (Kangxi radical 82, 毛+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹手山 (HQU), four-corner 2071₄, composition ⿱丿⿻二乚)

• Appendix:Chinese radical/毛
• 𠇔, 㕰, 㘪, 㚪, 𡥊, 𫷀, 𢗳, 㧌, 𣲭, 𤝄, 𨑺, 𪰌, 枆, 𣥡, 𭴎, 牦, 𭸶, 𦙤, 𮁠, 瓱, 㿞, 眊, 𥐽, 秏, 竓, 粍, 䋃(𫄜), 耗, 𬚱, 蚝, 𧠑, 𮗥, 䚽(𬣜), 𨈥, 軞(𬨁), 酕, 𨱞, 兞, 𩉪, 䫽, 𬲎, 𩠔, 䭷, 𩫁, 𩲊, 魹, 𩿘, 𪉚, 𪎷, 䶰
• 覒, 𩿂, 𰀴, 𤆬, 𥄥, 𨖧, 宒, 芼, 𦒷, 𬔆, 笔, 耄, 雮, 靟, 𤦖, 𥇾, 髦, 𨪅, 旄, 尾, 麾, 閐(𨸃), 𧘝

• も
• モ

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 591, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16772
• Dae Jaweon: page 983, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1994, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6BDB

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

Pictogram (象形) – feather or hair.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/r-m(u/i/ja)l (“hair; fur; feather”); related to 眉 (OC *mril, “eyebrow”) and cognate with Manipuri ꯃꯨꯅ (mun, “pubic hair”), Garo খিমিল (khimil, “hair; fur”), Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔ-məw¹ (“body hair”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007).

(Cantonese) (mold): folk etymology suggests from English mold.

毛

1. hair (of humans or animals); fur; feather (Classifier: 根 m; 條／条 c; 支 mn)

   雞毛／鸡毛 [Cantonese]  ―  gai¹ mou⁴   ―  chicken feather

2. (dialectal) hair on the head
3. mildew; mold

   發毛／发毛 [Cantonese]  ―  faat³ mou^4-1   ―  to become moldy

4. (colloquial) jiao; one tenth of a yuan or dollar; ten cents; dime

   一毛錢／一毛钱  ―  yī máo qián  ―  a jiao / ten cents

   三塊兩毛／三块两毛  ―  sān kuài liǎng máo  ―  three yuan and two jiao / three dollars and twenty cents

   五毛黨／五毛党  ―  wǔmáodǎng  ―  wumao

5. coarse; raw; semifinished

   毛茶  ―  máochá  ―  raw tea

6. (of an amount) gross

   Antonym: 淨／净 (jìng)

   毛利  ―  máolì  ―  gross profit

   毛重  ―  máozhòng  ―  gross weight

7. rough; sketchy

   毛估  ―  máogū  ―  to make a rough estimate

8. small; little

   毛毛雨  ―  máomaoyǔ  ―  drizzle

   毛孩子  ―  máoháizi  ―  mere child

9. careless; unthinking

   毛手毛腳／毛手毛脚  ―  máoshǒumáojiǎo  ―  to be careless

10. panicked; scared; nervous

    把我嚇毛了／把我吓毛了  ―  bǎ wǒ xià máo le  ―  to have scared me

11. angry; furious
12. (of currency) depreciated
13. (Mainland China, colloquial or slang) no; nothing; damn all; my ass

    有毛用  ―  yǒu máo yòng  ―  be not effective or useful, to be of damn-all use

    管毛用  ―  guǎn máo yòng  ―  be not effective or useful, to be of damn-all use

14. (Cantonese, colloquial, always with the classifier) nothing; damn all; jack shit; bugger all (Classifier: 條／条 c)

    Synonyms: 春, 鐵／铁

    你識條毛咩？ [Cantonese, trad.]
    你识条毛咩？ [Cantonese, simp.]

    nei⁵ sik¹ tiu⁴ mou⁴ me¹?

    Do you know anything at all?

15. (ACG) hair (in unnatural colours)

    白毛  ―  bái máo  ―  with white-coloured hair

    假毛  ―  jiǎmáo  ―  wig

16. (Hokkien) tiny; minute
17. (Hokkien) impure; contaminated; false; mixed
18. (Mainland China Hokkien) crops; vegetation; greenery; plants
19. (Mainland China Hokkien) unrefined; crude
20. a surname

    毛澤東／毛泽东  ―  Máo Zédōng  ―  Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), founder of the People's Republic of China

In Standard Chinese, for hair on the human head, use 頭髮／头发 (tóufa) instead.

• (hair on the head):

• (jiao):

• (to depreciate): 貶值／贬值 (biǎnzhí)

• → Arabic: مَاو (māw)
• → English: Mao
• → French: Mao
• → German: Mao
• → Italian: Mao
• → Persian: مائو (mâ'u)
• → Russian: Ма́о (Máo)
• → Turkish: Mao
• → Uyghur: ماۋ (maw)

毛

1. (Southern Min) mountain weed

• “毛”, 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–

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

1. hair, fur

• Go-on: もう (mō, Jōyō)^{←まう (mau, historical)}
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō)^{←ばう (bau, historical)}
• Kun: け (ke, 毛, Jōyō)

From Old Japanese. Attested in the Man'yōshū of circa 759 CE.^[1] Ultimately from Proto-Japonic *kay. Cognate with Proto-Ryukyuan *ke (“hair, fur”).

• (Tokyo) け (Heiban – )^[2][3]
• IPA^(key):

毛(け) • (ke) 

1. hair, fur

From Middle Chinese 毛 (maw).

• (Tokyo) もー (Atamadaka – )^[2][3]
• IPA^(key):

毛(もう) • (mō) 

1. one thousandth
   1. one thousandth of a 寸 (sun) (approximately 0.0303 mm)
   2. one thousandth of a 匁 (monme) (exactly 3.75 mg)
   3. one thousandth of a 割 (wari) (0.01 percent)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

毛

Wikisource

毛 (eumhun 터럭 모 (teoreok mo))

1. Hanja form^? of 모 (“hair”).

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: きー (kī, 毛)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *ke, from Proto-Japonic *kay. Cognate with Japanese 毛 (ke).

毛(きー) (kī) 

1. hair, fur