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耄

mào

Character

What 耄 means

1. extremely aged (in one's 80s or 90s)
2. octogenarian
3. nonagenarian

Example sentences

• 克莱恩女士虽已至耄耋之年，但仍然很活泼。
  Kèlái ēn nǚshì suī yǐ zhì màodiézhīnián, dàn réngrán hěn huópo.
  Although Mrs Crane is at her eighties，she is still vivacious.

Words starting with 耄

• 耄倪mào níold and young
• 耄思mào sīto be upset or disturbed
• 耄期mào qī(literary) one's 80s or 90s
• 耄耋mào diéextremely aged; gray and venerable
• 耄龄mào língold age; eighties, nineties, or greater (of age)
• 耄耋之年mào dié zhī niánold age (in one's 80s, 90s, or more)

Words containing 耄

• 老耄lǎo màodim sight of the aged; doddering; senile
• 谬耄miù màofeeble-minded and senile
• 惛耄hūn màosenile; senility

Characters built on 毛

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

• 毫háohair; drawing brush; (in the) least
• 耗hàoto waste; to spend; to consume
• 髦máobang (hair); fashionable; mane
• 蚝háooyster
• 牦máoyak (Bos grunniens)
• 酕máoused in 酕醄
• 旄máobanner decorated with animal's tail

Sounds the same

Read mào, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 冒to emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth); to brave; to face; (bound form) reckless
• 帽hat; cap
• 貌(bound form) appearance; looks; outward form
• 贸commerce; trade
• 茂luxuriant; (chemistry) cyclopentadiene
• 懋to be hardworking; luxuriant; splendid
• 袤length; distance from north to south
• 瑁(jade)
• 芼select; vegetables
• 眊having poor eyesight
• 瞀indistinct vision; dim
• 楙Cydonia japonica