毛 (mou4 | mao2) : hair; fur; feathers

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毛

mou4

mao2

[1] hair; fur; feathers; down [2] vegetation [3] ten cents; dime [4] gross; untouched; unpolished [5] panic-stricken; scared; flurried [6] very young; little [7] a Chinese family name

Stroke count: 4

Level: 1

Radical: 毛 (#82)

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

毛

Don't confuse with:
手

This word has been viewed 16614 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

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毛驢 mou4 leoi4 mao2 lv2 = donkey

五毛黨 ng5 mou4 dong2 wu3 mao2 dang3 = fifty cents party (persons supposed to relay government propaganda on Internet sites)

羊毛 joeng4 mou4 yang2 mao2 = wool

毛巾 mou4 gan1 mao2 jin1 = towel

毛筆 mou4 bat1 mao2 bi3 = chinese calligraphy brush

毛蟲 mou4 cung4 mao2 chong2 = caterpillar

抹手毛巾 maat3 sau2 mou4 gan1 ma1 shou3 mao2 jin1 = hand towel; handtowel

狗毛 gau2 mou4 = hair or fur of dog

九牛一毛 gau2 ngau4 jat1 mou4 = a drop in the ocean (lit., "nine cows, one hair")

攣毛 lyun1 mou4*1 luan2 mao2 = curly hair 粵
See all 158 compounds (CantoDict reports 161 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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你的腦子有毛病? 國
"Are you out of your mind?"

抰下條毛巾至用粵
Pull towel down before use.
[a more literal translation might be to "jolt" the towel]

新澤西州到處都係不毛之地粵
New Jersey is just barren wasteland.
[Lit. New Jersey everywhere also is barren wasteland. Originally the sentence was 死神界到處都是不毛之地, but I gave it a little twist!]

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 毛
Unicode code for this character: U+6BDB (off-site link)

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