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Máo
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Máo
  1. 1.surname Mao
máo
  1. 1.hair
  2. 2.feather
  3. 3.down
  4. 4.wool
  5. 5.mildew
  6. 6.mold
  7. 7.coarse or semifinished
  8. 8.young
  9. 9.raw
  10. 10.careless
  11. 11.unthinking
  12. 12.nervous
  13. 13.scared
  14. 14.(of currency) to devalue or depreciate
  15. 15.classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiǎo] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fēn])

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.hair (of humans or animals); fur; feather (Classifier: 根 m; 條/条 c; 支 mn)
  2. 2.hair on the head
  3. 3.mildew; mold
  4. 4.jiao; one tenth of a yuan or dollar; ten cents; dime
  5. 5.coarse; raw; semifinished
  6. 6.gross
  7. 7.rough; sketchy
  8. 8.small; little
  9. 9.careless; unthinking
  10. 10.panicked; scared; nervous
  11. 11.angry; furious
  12. 12.depreciated
  13. 13.no; nothing; damn all; my ass
  14. 14.nothing; damn all; jack shit; bugger all (Classifier: 條/条 c)
  15. 15.hair (in unnatural colours)
  16. 16.tiny; minute
  17. 17.impure; contaminated; false; mixed
  18. 18.crops; vegetation; greenery; plants
  19. 19.unrefined; crude
  20. 20.a surname

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Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – feather or hair. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/r-m(u/i/ja)l (“hair; fur; feather”); related to 眉 (OC *mril, “eyebrow”) and cognate with Manipuri ꯃꯨꯅ (mun, “pubic hair”), Garo খিমিল (khimil, “hair; fur”), Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔ-məw¹ (“body hair”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007). (Cantonese) (mold): folk etymology suggests from English mold.

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