Chinese Character Wiki

茆

máo, mǎo

species of grass

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

grass

卯 sound component

卯  Sound component

mǎo

  

4th terrestrial branch

Evolution

茆 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
茆 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
茆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
茆 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
茆 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

茆  

máo

species of grass, water mallows; variant of 茅[máo]; thatch

茆  

mǎo

type of water plant; (dialect) loess hills

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤruʔ

maewX

mǎo

Brasenia


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6629th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+8306

Shuowen

“茆，鳧葵也。从艸，卯聲。《詩》曰：‘言釆其茆。’”


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