毛

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

fur

HSK 1 N2

Human →Body

máo

モウ

け

모

Pictograph of a feather.

Notes

Historical Evolution

Bronze

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

毛

Regular

Modern

Chinese

毛 [Máo]

surname Mao

毛 [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[jiǎo] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fēn])

Japanese

毛け同音

noun

hair
fur; wool
down; plumage; feathers

毛もう同音

numeric one-thousandth; 0.03 mm (one-thousandth of a sun); 0.01 percent (one-thousandth of a wari); 3.75 milligrams (one-thousandth of a monme)
noun old monetary unit (0.0001 yen)