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Mào
HSK 5freq #2381

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Mào
  1. 1.surname Mao
mào
  1. 1.old variant of 冒[mào]
mào
  1. 1.to emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth)
  2. 2.to brave; to face
  3. 3.(bound form) reckless
  4. 4.to falsely adopt (sb's identity etc); to feign
  5. 5.(literary) to cover

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to cover
  2. 2.cloth used to dress a corpse; sack for corpses
  3. 3.to wear a hat
  4. 4.Original form of 帽 (mào, “hat”).
  5. 5.to pretend to be
  6. 6.to risk; to brave; to face
  7. 7.bold; thoughtless; boldly
  8. 8.to encroach on; to violate
  9. 9.to receive; to suffer from
  10. 10.to emit; to give off; to send out
  11. 11.to appear; to emerge
  12. 12.to boil
  13. 13.to vomit or to have diarrhoea
  14. 14.to cover rice or noodles with vegetables and meat; to put broth over noodles or rice
  15. 15.Substitute character for 懋 (mào, “to encourage”).
  16. 16.Substitute character for 芼 (mào, “name of a vegetable”).
  17. 17.Original form of 瑁 (mào, “ceremonial jade”).
  18. 18.Original form of 媢 (mào, “to envy”).
  19. 19.to be greedy for; covetous
  20. 20.only used in 瑇冒 and 毒冒, both are alternative forms of 玳瑁 (dàimào)

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *muːɡs, *mɯːɡ): phonetic 冃 (OC *muːɡs, “hat”) + semantic 目 (“eyes”). 冃 is the original form, 目 was added later. Original form of 帽 (OC *muːɡs, “hat”). See also 敖, 免, and 美. Original meaning was “to cover”. Sino-Tibetan. Schuessler (2007) connects it with Proto-Sino-Tibetan *muːŋ ~ r/s-muːk (“sky, clouds, fog, dark, covered”), whence Burmese မိုး (mui:, “sky; rain; to hold something over the head; roof”), Tibetan མུ (mu), དམུ (dmu), རྨུ (rmu), སྨུ (smu, “(archaic) sky”). Derivative: 帽 (OC *muːɡs, “hat”).

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