冒 (mou6 | mao4 ) : emit; risk; affront; false

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冒

mou6

mao4

[1] emit; give off; send out
[2] risk; brave; jeopardize
[3] affront; offend; bold; rash
[4] assume false identity; pose as

冒 is pronounced mak6 in Jyutping and mo4 in Pinyin when used in 冒頓, name of a chieftain of Xiongnu in the early Han dynasty.

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Stroke count: 9

Level: 3

Radical: 冂 (#13)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

冒

Don't confuse with:
昌

This word has been viewed 9006 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Nov 2009 08:20

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冒風險 mou6 fung1 him2 mao4 feng1 xian3 = to take risks

冒犯 mou6 faan6 mao4 fan4 = offend; affront

作感冒 zok3 gam2 mou6 zuo4 gan3 mao4 = have a cold 粵

冒號 mou6 hou6 mao4 hao4 = colon (as in the punctuation mark)

感冒 gam2 mou6 gan3 mao4 = a cold; to catch a cold

假冒 gaa2 mou6 jia3 mao4 = to impersonate; to pose as; to palm off a fake as genuine

冒險 mou6 him2 mao4 xian3 = take a risk; risky

冒牌貨 mou6 paai4 fo3 mao4 pai2 huo4 = faker; counterfeit

流行性感冒 lau4 hang4 sing3 gam2 mou6 liu2 xing2 xing4 gan3 mao4 = influenza

感冒藥 gam2 mou6 joek6 gan3 mao4 yao4 = cold medicine
See all 28 compounds (CantoDict reports 32 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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Decimal representation of this word: 冒
Unicode code for this character: U+5192 (off-site link)

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