毛

毛 U+6BDB, 毛 ← 毚[U+6BDA] CJK Unified Ideographs 毜 →[U+6BDC] ⽑ U+2F51, ⽑ ← ⽐[U+2F50] Kangxi Radicals ⽒ →[U+2F52] Stroke order Stroke order

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
• 㕰, 㘪, 㚪, 㧌, 枆, 牦, 瓱, 㿞, 眊, 秏, 竓, 粍, 䋃, 耗, 蚝, 䚽(𬣜), 軞(𬨁), 酕, 兞, 䫽, 䭷, 魹, 䶰
• 覒, 宒, 芼, 笔, 耄, 雮, 靟, 髦, 旄, 尾, 麾, 閐(𨸃)

• 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

simp. and trad. 毛

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 [Jyutping] ― chicken feather
2. (dialectal) hair on the head
3. mildew; mold 發毛／发毛 [Cantonese] ― faat3 mou4-1 [Jyutping] ― 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? [Jyutping]Do you know anything at all?
15. (ACG) hair (in unnatural colours) 白毛 ― bái máo ― [the character] 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; fur; feather):

• (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)‎[2], 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)

Kanji in this term 毛 けGrade: 2 kun’yomi

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 [kè] (Heiban – [0])[2][3]
• IPA(key): [ke̞]

毛(け) • (ke)

1. [from c. 759] hair, fur
   1. animal fur
   2. human hair
   3. bird feathers
   4. wool

Kanji in this term 毛 もうGrade: 2 on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 毛 (maw).

• (Tokyo) もー [móꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])[2][3]
• IPA(key): [mo̞ː]

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)
2. one hundredth of a 銭 (sen)

• “毛”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[3] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015-2026

(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): [mo̞]
• Phonetic hangul: [모]

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

毛: Hán Nôm readings: mao, mau, mào

1. chữ Hán form of mao
2. chữ Nôm form of mau (“quick, fast”)
3. chữ Nôm form of máu (“blood”)