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  *毛* | 毛* | *毛
hair / feather / down / wool / mildew / mold / coarse or semifinished / young / raw / careless / unthinking / nervous / scared / (of currency) to devalue or depreciate / classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen )
HSK 1
fault / defect / shortcomings / ailment / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
towel / CL: 條|条
HSK 4
(wool) sweater / CL:
HSK 4
writing brush / CL: ,
HSK 5
badminton / shuttlecock
HSK 5
eyebrow / CL:
HSK 7-9
a problem appears / to break down
HSK 7-9
Mauritania
Mauritius
The White Haired Girl (1950), one of the first PRC films
gross profit
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *毛* | 毛* | *毛
surname Mao
fleece / wool / woolen
armpit hair
hair
hair on the temples
(derog.) the Longhairs (Taiping rebels of the 19th century)
long-wool (sheep etc) / long-haired (dog etc)
to grow hair / to become mildewed
blond fur
fur / down (soft fur) / villi capillary (in the small intestine)
feather / plumage / plume
eyelashes
goose feather snow (idiom) / big heavy snow fall
caterpillar
pore
fur / fur clothing / skin and hair / superficial / superficial knowledge
gross weight
barb / whiskers
blanket
fine paper made from bamboo, used for calligraphy, painting etc / also written 毛邊|毛边
hairy fellow / foreigner / Russian (derog.) / bandit (old) / tuft of fine hair
donkey / CL: 頭|头
(pet name for a baby or small child)
capillary
knitting wool / wool yarn
pubic hair
lit. chicken feathers and garlic skins (idiom) / fig. trivial (matter)
fur / pelt
moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis), used as timber etc
chicken feather / CL: / trivial
goose feather
flagellum
mane
caterpillar
to molt (of birds) / to change feathers
to have one's hair stand on end (idiom) / to feel one's blood run cold
fluff / lint / to feel nervous
(textiles, papermaking etc) raw edge; rough edge
to rant and rave / to be scared, upset (Beijing dialect)
immature green soy beans, either still in the pod (edamame) or removed from the pod
semifinished products
bristle
brush
felt
drizzle; light rain / (fig.) mere trifle; sth that has only a weak effect
lit. to grab feathers from a flying goose / fig. to seize any opportunity / pragmatic
hairy; downy
hair / soft hair / down
Mao Sui recommends himself (idiom); to offer one's services (in the style of Mao Sui offering his services to king of Chu of the Warring states)
ox hair (used as a metaphor for sth very numerous or sth fine and delicate)
fuzz / fine fur (of marten etc)
Selected Works of Mao Zedong
cilium
to lose hair or feathers / to molt / depilation / to shave
light as a goose feather (idiom); trifling / unimportant
lit. unwilling to spare a single hair (idiom) / fig. extremely stingy
mohair (loanword)
unprocessed sun-dried tea leaves used to make black or green tea
fine hair (on the body); down / (often used figuratively as in 動毫毛|动毫毛 "to harm sb in the slightest way")
Mullah (religious leader in Islam)
lit. one hair from nine oxen (idiom) / fig. a drop in the ocean
rambutan or rumbutan (tropical fruit) (Nephelium lappaceum)
beech
fine hair on the human body
lit. to blow apart the hairs upon a fur to discover any defect (idiom); fig. to be fastidious / nitpick
knitted cotton
(idiom) barren land; desert
devour raw meat and fowl (of savages)
feather / plume / plumage / CL:
carelessly and haphazardly / to paw / to grope / to get fresh
fuzz
lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation / extreme emergency
palm fiber / coir
mammoth
barren
wool top, semiprocessed raw wool
buttercup
Mao Sui (third century BC), who proverbially offered his services to the King of Chu , see 毛遂自薦|毛遂自荐
(Internet slang) why?
white hair (of animals) / see also 白髮|白发
to remove hair; to depilate
Selected Works of Mao Zedong (abbr. for 毛澤東選集|毛泽东选集)
pubic hair
Chairman Mao / Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 (1893-1976), Chinese Communist leader
body hair
fur
Mao Zedong (1893-1976), leader of the Chinese Communist Party 1935-1976
(textiles) to singe

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