沫 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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mò

froth

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 末 represents the sound.

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

末 Sound component

mò

end

Evolution

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

mò

froth, foam, bubbles, suds; foam; suds

Most common words with 沫

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	泡沫	foam
	唾沫	spittle
	沫	foam
	泡沫塑料	styrofoam
	郭沫若	Guo Moruo (1892-1978), writer, communist party intellectual and cultural apparatchik

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*mˤat	mat	mò	foam, spittle

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.8123% of movies

2648th most common character in movies

2495th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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