mào

to choose

Evolution

芼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
芼 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

 

mào

to choose; to select; greens; select; vegetables

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤaw(k)-s

mawH

mào

cull and cook


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

9815th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+82BC

Shuowen

“芼,艸覆蔓。从艸,毛聲。《詩》曰:‘左右芼之。’”


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