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峁

mǎo

Character

What 峁 means

1. round yellow dirt mount (in the Northwest of China)

Characters built on 卯

These share the phonetic component 卯 (mǎo), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 铆mǎoto fasten with a rivet; to rivet; to hammer in a rivet…
• 昴mǎothe Pleiades
• 茆mǎotype of water plant; (dialect) loess hills

Sounds the same

Read mǎo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 卯mortise (slot cut into wood to receive a tenon); 4th earthly branch: 5–7 a.m., 2nd solar…
• 铆to fasten with a rivet; to rivet; to hammer in a rivet…
• 冇to not have (Cantonese) (Mandarin equivalent: 没有
• 昴the Pleiades
• 泖still water
• 茆type of water plant; (dialect) loess hills