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

• 毛茛 buttercup
• 毛利人 Maori
• 挑毛剔刺 to find fault; to carp; nitpicking
• 毛料 rough lumber; woollen cloth
• 毛玻璃 frosted glass
• 毛豆(毛荳) green soy bean
• 毛骨悚然 to have one's hair stand on end; to feel one's blood run cold
• 毛边纸(毛邊紙) fine paper made from bamboo, used for calligraphy, painting etc
• 毛绒绒(毛絨絨) fluffy; furry
• 三毛猫(三毛貓) tortoiseshell cat; calico cat
• 毛驴(毛驢) donkey
• 毛拉 Mullah (religious leader in Islam)
• 毛小囊 follicle
• 毛子 hairy fellow; foreigner; Russian (derog.); bandit (old); tuft of fine hair
• 毛羽 hair and feathers
• 毛孩子 a small child; an ignorant child
• 毛茶 unprocessed tea leaves
• 绒毛性腺激素(絨毛性腺激素) human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG)
• 五毛特效 laughable low-budget special effects
• 眉毛胡子一把抓(眉毛鬍子一把抓) careless; any-old-how, regardless of the specific task
• 九牛一毛 one hair from nine oxen; a drop in the ocean
• 眉毛 eyebrow
• 千里寄鹅毛(千里寄鵝毛) goose feather sent from afar; a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it
• 千里送鹅毛(千里送鵝毛) goose feather sent from afar; a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it
• 刚毛(剛毛) bristles
• 鸡毛(雞毛) chicken feather; trivial
• 礼轻人意重，千里送鹅毛(禮輕人意重，千里送鵝毛) goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning
• 茹毛饮血(茹毛飲血) devour raw meat and fowl
• 毛里求斯卢比(毛裡求斯盧比) Mauritian rupee
• 凤毛麟角(鳳毛麟角) [like] phoenix feathers or unicorn horns; very rare
• 毛肚 tripe (gastronomy)
• 老毛子 Westerner (esp. a Russian)
• 毛施淑姿 Mao and Shi's charm and elegance
• 身披羽毛 feathered
• 羽毛球 badminton; shuttlecock
• 毛巾 towel
• 毛片 pornographic film ; unedited film ; fur color
• 毛发(毛髮) hair
• 鬣毛 mane
• 羊毛毯 woolen blanket
• 毛细(毛細) capillary
• 睫毛膏 mascara
• 纤毛动力蛋白(纖毛動力蛋白) ciliary dynein protein
• 起毛 fluff; lint; to feel nervous
• 毛布 a wool cloth ; a cotton cloth
• 茸毛 fuzz
• 寒毛 fine hair on the human body

Also contained in

翠巖眉毛 、 毛嫱 、 毛遂 、 毛主席语录

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
• 卷五 中山經 Chapter 5: Classic of the Mountains - Central Classic of Mountains and Seas 山海經 — count: 20
• 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
• 《毛部》 Máo Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 20
• 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
• 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

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
• 虫毛 (蟲毛) 其蟲毛 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — 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
• 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
• 毛先生 (毛先生) 今乃於毛先生而失之也 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《平原君虞卿列傳》 Biographies of Lord Pingyuan and Yu Qing — count: 3