毛 máo

1. máo noun hair; fur; feathers
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Nature
   Notes: In modern Chinese this refers to hair other than hair on one's head. Animals have 毛 but not 头发. In classical Chinese it can refer to hair on the head (Guoyu '毛' n 1; Kroll 2015 '毛' 1; Unihan '毛'; XHZD '毛' 1).
2. máo proper noun Mao
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names
   Notes: See also 毛泽东 Mao Zedong (Guoyu '毛' n 6; Wikipedia '毛泽东')
3. máo noun Kangxi radical 82
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: (ABC back cover; Guoyu '毛' n 7; GHC p. 7)
4. máo measure word one-tenth of yuan
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: It is preferred over 角 for currency in spoken Chinese (Guoyu '毛' n 5; XHZD '毛' 9)
5. máo adjective coarse; partially finished
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 粗糙 (Guoyu '毛' adj 3; Unihan '毛'; XHZD '毛' 3)
6. máo noun hair-like thing
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Such as mould (Kroll 2015 '毛' 2; XHZD '毛' 2)
7. máo adjective gross
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: As in 毛重 gross weight or 毛利 gross profit (Guoyu '毛' adj 4; XHZD '毛' 4)
8. máo adjective small; little
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 小 (Guoyu '毛' adj 5; XHZD '毛' 5)
9. máo adjective rash; crude; careless
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 慌忙 (XHZD '毛' 6)
10. máo adjective scared; nervous
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '毛' adj 1; XHZD '毛' 7)
11. máo verb to depreciate
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (XHZD '毛' 8)
12. máo verb to be without
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '毛' 3)
13. máo noun vegetables
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 蔬菜; for example, the idiom 不毛之地 'land with no vegetables [barren land]' (Guoyu '毛' n 3)
14. máo noun animals
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 走兽 (Guoyu '毛' n 4)
15. máo adjective angry
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 生气 (Guoyu '毛' adj 2)

Contained in

• 毛里求斯卢比(毛裡求斯盧比) Mauritian rupee
• 搞毛 what are you doing?; what the hell?
• 毛绒玩具(毛絨玩具) plush toy; cuddly toy
• 毛皮 fur; pelt
• 毛痣 hairy nevus
• 鞭毛纲(鞭毛綱) flagellate
• 毛毛匠 a leather worker
• 毛线(毛線) knitting wool; wool yarn
• 毛衣 wool sweater ; bird feathers ; clothes made from fur
• 羊毛毯 woolen blanket
• 拔毛连茹(拔毛連茹) pull up a plant and the roots follow; also involving others; inextricably tangled together
• 五毛 fifty cents party
• 毛茛 buttercup
• 毛料 rough lumber; woollen cloth
• 汗毛 hair; soft hair; down
• 毛利 gross profit ; gross profit
• 毛拉 Mullah (religious leader in Islam)
• 毛织品(毛織品) products woven from animal hair
• 毛脚渔鸮(毛腳漁鴞) Blakiston's fish owl (Bubo blakistoni)
• 五毛特效 laughable low-budget special effects
• 毛小囊 follicle
• 毛腿沙鸡(毛腿沙雞) Pallas's sandgrouse (Syrrhaptes paradoxus)
• 挑毛剔刺 to find fault; to carp; nitpicking
• 脱毛剂(脫毛劑) depilatory medicine
• 体毛(體毛) body hair
• 毛毛 baby
• 软毛(軟毛) fur
• 氄毛 dense fur
• 烟腹毛脚燕(煙腹毛腳燕) Asian house martin (Delichon dasypus)
• 毛病 fault; defect; shortcomings ; illness
• 千里鹅毛(千里鵝毛) goose feather sent from afar; a trifling gift with a weighty thought behind it
• 九牛一毛 one hair from nine oxen; a drop in the ocean
• 毛坯 semifinished products
• 吹毛求疵 to blow apart the hairs upon a fur to discover any defect; to be fastidious; nitpick
• 马海毛(馬海毛) mohair
• 浅毛(淺毛) short fur
• 毛丫头(毛丫頭) a small girl
• 凤毛麟角(鳳毛麟角) [like] phoenix feathers or unicorn horns; very rare
• 鸡毛官(雞毛官) an official messenger
• 毛鸭蛋(毛鴨蛋) balut
• 不毛之地 land with no vegetables; barren land
• 鬣毛 mane
• 毛出在羊身上 wool comes from the sheep's back; One gets the benefit, but the price has been paid.
• 金毛狗 golden retriever (dog breed)
• 长毛象(長毛象) woolly mammoth
• 长毛(長毛) long haired ; long haired [bandits]; Taipings ; to grow mildew

Also contained in

毛主席 、 环江毛南族自治县 、 毛姆 、 毛颖传 、 毛里塔尼亚

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 第四十九回 Chapter 49 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 38
• 第五十二回 Chapter 52 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 30
• 卷一百〇六 列傳第五十六: 李林甫 楊國忠 張暐 王琚 王毛仲 陳玄禮 Volume 106 Biographies 56: Li Linfu, Yang Guozhong, Zhang Wei, Wang Ju, Wang Maozhong, Chen Xuanli Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 27
• 卷一百二十一　　列傳第四十六　　　　劉鍾崔二王 Volume 121 Biographies 46: Liu, Zhong, Cui, and the two Kings New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 24
• 卷一百一十三 載記第十三 苻堅上 Volume 113 Records 13: Fu Jian Part One Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 24
• 卷三百一十 列傳第一百九十八 土司 Volume 310 Biographies 198: Tribal Headmen History of Ming 明史 — count: 20
• 卷五 中山經 Chapter 5: Classic of the Mountains - Central Classic of Mountains and Seas 山海經 — count: 20
• 《毛部》 Máo Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 20
• 卷四十五　本紀第四十五: 順帝八 Volume 45 Annals 45: Shundi 8 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 17
• 卷三百二十 列傳第二百〇八 外國一 朝鮮 Volume 320 Biographies 208: Foreign States 1 - Korea History of Ming 明史 — count: 17

Collocations

• 毛伯 (毛伯) 毛伯 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 23
• 使毛 (使毛) 天王使毛伯來錫公命 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 6
• 毛云 (毛雲) 毛云 — Xunzi 荀子, 勸學篇第一 Chapter 1: An Exhortation to Study — count: 6
• 二毛 (二毛) 不禽二毛 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 6
• 虫毛 (蟲毛) 其蟲毛 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 6
• 生毛 (生毛) 脛不生毛 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 五蠹第四十九 Chapter 49: Five Vermin — count: 4
• 狐毛 (狐毛) 讓於狐毛而佐之 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 4
• 一毛 (一毛) 拔一毛而利天下 — Mencius 孟子, 盡心上 Jin Xin I — count: 4
• 毛物 (毛物) 其動物宜毛物 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 地官司徒 第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare — count: 4
• 毛廧 (毛廧) 故善毛廧 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 顯學第五十 Chapter 50: Scholarly Achievement — count: 3