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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
badminton / shuttlecock
HSK 5
writing brush / CL: ,
HSK 5
eyebrow / CL:
HSK 7-9
a problem appears / to break down
HSK 7-9
lit. unwilling to spare a single hair (idiom) / fig. extremely stingy
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *毛* | 毛* | *毛
surname Mao
goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
Maonan ethnic group of Guangxi
(botany) glandular hair
buttercup
Mao Zedong Thought
felt
The White Haired Girl (1950), one of the first PRC films
fine hair on the human body
tactile hair; vibrissa; whisker
(dialect) eyelashes
moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis), used as timber etc
duck's blood and beef tripe in spicy soup
serge
(geology) Pele's hair
barb / whiskers
writing brush (old) / Castanopsis fordii, a species of evergreen tree common in the south of China whose calybia (nuts) resemble the tip of a writing brush
nose hair
feather / plumage / plume
lit. to blow apart the hairs upon a fur to discover any defect (idiom); fig. to be fastidious / nitpick
fleece / wool / woolen
hair / soft hair / down
eyelashes
pore
one yuan or less / around 80 cents or one dollar
husk ground-cherry; husk tomato (Physalis pubescens)
(pet name for a baby or small child)
fur / down (soft fur) / villi capillary (in the small intestine)
gross profit
Maori, indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand
hair
goose feather snow (idiom) / big heavy snow fall
fuzz
pubic hair
knitting wool / wool yarn
lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation / extreme emergency
armpit hair
palm fiber / coir
woolen blanket
hairy; downy
flagellum
(Tw) gross domestic product; GDP
hair follicle
(textiles, papermaking etc) raw edge; rough edge
to lose hair or feathers / to molt / depilation / to shave
caterpillar
fur / fur clothing / skin and hair / superficial / superficial knowledge
chronic illness / old weakness / chronic problem
live pig
woolly mammoth
wool sweater; cardigan
(Internet slang) why?
chicken feather / CL: / trivial
to rant and rave / to be scared, upset (Beijing dialect)
eyelashes
pornographic film / rushes (of a movie) / (old) fur color
Mauritania
beech
lit. as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns (idiom) / fig. few and far between
child; kid / (slang) furry pet (such as a dog or cat)
to have one's hair stand on end (idiom) / to feel one's blood run cold
donkey / CL: 頭|头
(textiles) plush
silly little girl
lit. to grab feathers from a flying goose / fig. to seize any opportunity / pragmatic
(idiom) to cherish one's reputation
sweater / woolen knitwear / wool
caterpillar
devour raw meat and fowl (of savages)
fine paper made from bamboo, used for calligraphy, painting etc / also written 毛邊|毛边
to molt (of birds) / to change feathers
Westerner (esp. a Russian) (derog.)
to wave a chicken feather as a token of authority (idiom); to assume unwarranted authority on the basis of some pretext
wool top, semiprocessed raw wool
gross income / gross profit
knitting needle
lanolin / wool oil
cilium
Maugham (family name) / W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), English writer
immature green soy beans, either still in the pod (edamame) or removed from the pod
careless / any-old-how, regardless of the specific task
creeped out; unnerved; uneasy
body hair
(coll.) new-born baby / young boy
lit. wool comes from the sheep's back (idiom); One gets the benefit, but the price has been paid. / Nothing comes for free.
carelessly and haphazardly / to paw / to grope / to get fresh
swift feet / fleet-footed runner
fuzz / fine fur (of marten etc)
mane
woolen textiles

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