毛
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hair; feather; down; wool; mildew; mold; coarse or semifinished; young; raw; careless; unthinking; nervous; scared; (of currency) to devalue or depreciate; classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiao3] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fen1])
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- Level 1
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- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 毛 itself
- Structure
- Overlaid 叠加
- Traditional
- 毛
- Common rank
- #267
- Unicode
- U+6BDB
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 毛 is formed
How to remember it
fur · Heisig RSH #1421
手 hand
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 毛
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不毛之地 | (idiom) barren land; desert | |
| 毛子国 | (derog.) Russia | |
| 小毛头 | (coll.) new-born baby; young boy | |
| 马海毛 | (loanword) mohair | |
| 毛利人 | Maori, indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand | |
| 老毛子 | Westerner (esp. a Russian) (derog.) | |
| 火山毛 | (geology) Pele's hair | |
| 毛地黄 | common foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) | |
| 不毛 | barren | |
| 毛子 | hairy fellow; foreigner; Russian (derog.); bandit (old); tuft of fine hair | |
| 二毛子 | lit. secondary foreigner; (derogatory term for Chinese Christians and others associated wi… | |
| 无毛 | hairless | |
| 毛主义 | Maoism | |
| 一地鸡毛 | complete mess; in a shambles | |
| 出毛病 | a problem appears; to break down | |
| 环江毛南族自治县 | Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County, in Hechi City 河池市[He2 chi2 Shi4], Guangxi | |
| 毛拉 | Mullah (religious leader in Islam) | |
| 白毛 | white hair (of animals); see also 白髮|白发[bai2 fa4] | |
| 金毛 | blond fur; golden hair; (coll.) golden retriever | |
| 体毛 | body hair |
Sound family
These characters use 毛 as their sound component — compare how they read.