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茆

mǎo

Character

What 茆 means

1. type of water plant
2. dialectloess hills

Other readings

茆 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• máovariant of {茅|máo}; thatch

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
• 峁mǎoround yellow dirt mount (in the Northwest of China)

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
• 峁round yellow dirt mount (in the Northwest of China)
• 泖still water