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)
16. máo noun hair; roma
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: roma, Japanese: mou, or: bou, Tibetan: spu (BCSD '毘', p. 700; Edgerton 1953 'roma', p. 457; Mahāvyutpatti 'roma'; MW 'roma'; Unihan '毛')

Contained in

• 嘴上没毛，办事不牢(嘴上沒毛，辦事不牢) a youth without facial hair cannot be relied upon ; seven places
• 龟毛兔角(龜毛兔角) turtle hair and rabbit's horn ; tortoise hair, rabbit horns
• 一一毛石旋相 ekaika-romata
• 佛说身毛喜竖经(佛說身毛喜豎經) Shen Mao Xi Shu Jing

Also contained in

吹毛求疵 、 毛邓三 、 毛病 、 鸿毛 、 鬃毛 、 阴毛 、 老毛病 、 皮毛 、 纤毛 、 挑毛病 、 鉴毛辨色 、 鞭毛 、 毛发皆竖 、 毛腿耳夜鹰 、 鸿毛泰岱 、 身披羽毛 、 鬓毛 、 毛主席 、 毛毡 、 毛洋槐 、 毛毯 、 体毛 、 毛刺 、 羊毛毯 、 脱毛剂 、 九牛一毛 、 毛主席语录 、 略知皮毛 、 毛孩子 、 毛诗诂训传 、 毛痣 、 腺毛 、 毛根 、 二毛子 、 毛织品 、 吹毛 、 深入不毛 、 挑毛剔刺 、 毛手毛脚 、 起毛 、 烧毛 、 拉毛特 、 毫毛 、 羊毛 、 羽毛笔 、 不毛 、 毛绒绒

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• Scroll 57 Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經 — count: 57 , has English translation , has parallel version
• Scroll 9 Mahāsaṅghikavinaya (Mohesengzhi Lu) 摩訶僧祇律 — count: 47
• Scroll 53 Sarvāstivādavinaya (Shi Song Lu) 十誦律 — count: 43
• Scroll 9 Sarvāstivādavinaya (Shi Song Lu) 十誦律 — count: 40
• Scroll 3 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 37
• Scroll 3 Jyotiṣkāvadāna (Fo Shuo Guangming Tongzi Yinyuan Jing) 佛說光明童子因緣經 — count: 34
• Scroll 21 Mūlasarvāstivādavinayavibhaṅga (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶 — count: 33
• Scroll 1 Fo Shuo Guan Fo Sanmei Hai Jing 佛說觀佛三昧海經 — count: 30
• Scroll 5 Ajātaśatrukaukṛtyavinodana (Fo Shuo Wei Ceng You Zhengfa Jing) 佛說未曾有正法經 — count: 29
• Scroll 59 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 29

Collocations

• 箭毛 (箭毛) 箭毛二 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 55 — count: 70
• 衣毛 (衣毛) 衣毛為竪 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 57
• 身毛 (身毛) 身毛皆喜豎 — Vipaśyin Buddha Sūtra 毘婆尸佛經, Scroll 2 — count: 55
• 毛竪 (毛竪) 賢者阿難心驚毛竪 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 44
• 一毛 (一毛) 一一孔一毛生 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 1 — count: 33
• 毛答曰 (毛答曰) 異學箭毛答曰 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 57 — count: 18
• 针毛 (針毛) 五名針毛 — Beginning of the World (Qi Shi Jing) 起世經, Scroll 6 — count: 15
• 心惊毛 (心驚毛) 賢者阿難心驚毛竪 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 14
• 毛鬼 (毛鬼) 到針毛鬼住處夜宿 — Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經, Scroll 49 — count: 13
• 毛尾 (毛尾) 毛尾悅澤 — Beginning of the World (Qi Shi Jing) 起世經, Scroll 2 — count: 10