mào

trade

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of 貿.

Components
卯 sound component

  Sound component

mǎo

  

4th terrestrial branch

贝 meaning component

  Meaning component

bèi

  

sea shell

In ancient China shells were used as currency.

Evolution

贸 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
贸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
贸 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
贸 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

(貿) 

mào

trade, barter; mixed; rashly; commerce; trade

Most common words with 贸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

贸易

(commercial) trade

世贸

abbr. for 世界貿易組織|世界贸易组织

外贸

foreign trade

贸然

rashly

trade

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 3.6521% of movies

2532nd most common character in movies

1092nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+8D38


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