貌 mào
noun
countenance; appearance
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, 以貌取人 'to judge a person by appearances' (Unihan '貌')
Contained in
- 人不可貌相，海水不可斗量 you can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot
- 相貌 appearance; countenance; features
- 貌美 good looks; pretty (e.g. young woman)
- 男才女貌 talented man and beautiful woman; ideal couple
- 全貌 complete picture; full view
- 雅丹地貌 Yardang landform (formed by wind erosion)
- 以貌取人 to judge a person by appearances
- 道貌岸然 solemn and respectful
- 风貌(風貌) style; manner; ethos
- 花容月貌 countenance of a flower, face like the moon; (of a woman) beautiful
- 绮貌(綺貌) beautiful appearance
- 貌合神离(貌合神離) superficial appearance of unity but actually divided in spirit
- 面貌 appearance; face; features
- 品貌 behavior and appearance
- 旧貌(舊貌) old look; former appearance
- 郎才女貌 talented man and beautiful woman; ideal couple
- 美貌 good looks ; pretty; beautiful
- 像貌 appearance
- 笑貌 smiling face
- 原貌 the original form
- 容貌 countenance; personage
- 保持原貌 to preserve the original form
- 才貌双全(才貌雙全) talented and good-looking
- 貌什闲暇(貌甚閒暇) a stolid countenance
- 貌美如花 (of a woman) lovely as a flower ; beautiful
- 形貌 appearance
- 外貌协会(外貌協會) the good-looks club
- 见貌辨色(見貌辨色) observe facial expression and how it changes
- 完成体貌(完成體貌) perfect; perfect form
- 绮年玉貌(綺年玉貌) the beauty of youth
- 样貌(樣貌) appearance; manifestation
- 黄土地貌(黃土地貌) loess landform
- 貌似 to appear to be; to seem as if
- 才貌 ability and beauty
- 礼貌(禮貌) polite
- 外貌 profile; appearance
- 体貌(體貌) appearance
- 丹霞地貌 Danxia landform (red conglomerate and sandstone)
- 概貌 a general picture
- 状貌(狀貌) appearance; face; features
- 其貌不扬(其貌不揚) nothing special to look at; unprepossessing
- 貌合心离(貌合心離) the appearance of unity, but divided at heart; seeming harmony belies underlying disagreement
- 颜貌(顏貌) complexion; countenance
- 喀斯特地貌 karst landform
- 花貌蓬心 florid outside appearance, unkempt interior
- 玉貌 jade-like complexion
- 人不可貌相 you can't judge a person by appearance; you can't judge a book by its cover
- 鉴貌辨色(鑒貌辨色) be aware of facial expression and how it changes
- 气貌(氣貌) bearing
- 貌相 appearance (especially superficial); looks; to judge a person by appearances
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Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷十八 Scroll 18 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 136
- 卷十七 Scroll 17 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 105
- 卷五 Scroll 5 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 103
- 卷十二 Scroll 12 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 94
- 卷十一 Scroll 11 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 87
- 卷十九 Scroll 19 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 79
- 卷八 Scroll 8 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 67
- 卷七 Scroll 7 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 67
- 卷十五 Scroll 15 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 60
- 卷三十二 Scroll 32 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 56
Collocations
- 文貌 (文貌) 禮節文貌之盛矣 — Xunzi 荀子, 禮論篇第十九 Chapter 19: Discussion on Ceremony — count: 5
- 饰貌 (飾貌) 合情飾貌者禮樂之事也 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《樂記》 Record of Music — count: 4
- 貌曰 (貌曰) 貌曰恭 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 洪範 Zhou Shu - Great Plan — count: 4
- 曰貌 (曰貌) 一曰貌 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 洪範 Zhou Shu - Great Plan — count: 4
- 委貌 (委貌) 委貌 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《郊特牲》 The Single Victim at the Border Sacrifices — count: 3
- 貌诚 (貌誠) 禮之貌誠深矣 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《書‧禮書》 Treatises - Rites — count: 3
- 貌云 (貌雲) 少翁以方術蓋夜致王夫人及灶鬼之貌云 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《孝武本紀》 Annals of the Xiaowu Emperor — count: 3
- 貌情 (貌情) 所以貌情也 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 解老第二十 Chapter 20: Commentaries on Laozi's Teachings — count: 3
- 情貌 (情貌) 禮為情貌者也 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 解老第二十 Chapter 20: Commentaries on Laozi's Teachings — count: 3
- 貌言 (貌言) 貌言華也 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《商君列傳》 Biography of Lord Shang — count: 2