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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
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  *貓* | 貓* | *貓
cat (CL:隻|只) / (dialect) to hide oneself / (loanword) (coll.) modem
HSK 2
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  *冒* | 冒* | *冒
to emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth) / to brave; to face / (bound form) reckless / to falsely adopt (sb's identity etc); to feign / (literary) to cover
HSK 5
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  *冐* | 冐* | *冐
old variant of
HSK 5
to found a country / nation-building / the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949
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  *貓* | 貓* | *貓
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  *貿* | 貿* | *貿
commerce / trade
Mao Dun (1896-1981), Chinese novelist
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  *楙* | 楙* | *楙
Cydonia japonica
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  *毛* | 毛* | *毛
surname Mao
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  *茂* | 茂* | *茂
luxuriant / (chemistry) cyclopentadiene
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  *泖* | 泖* | *泖
still water
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  *髦* | 髦* | *髦
bang (hair) / fashionable / mane
Great Leap Forward (1958-1960), Mao's attempt to modernize China's economy, which resulted in economic devastation, and millions of deaths from famine caused by misguided policies
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  *冒* | 冒* | *冒
surname Mao
a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC, but adopted for Mao's campaign of 1956
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  *蝐* | 蝐* | *蝐
see 蝳蝐
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  *袤* | 袤* | *袤
length / distance from north to south
sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences
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  *芼* | 芼* | *芼
select / vegetables
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  *懋* | 懋* | *懋
to be hardworking / luxuriant / splendid
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  *貌* | 貌* | *貌
appearance
Mao County in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州, northwest Sichuan
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  *冇* | 冇* | *冇
to not have (Cantonese) (Mandarin equivalent: 沒有|没有)
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  *錨* | 錨* | *錨
anchor
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  *瞀* | 瞀* | *瞀
indistinct vision / dim
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  *訣* | 訣* | *訣
to bid farewell / tricks of the trade / pithy mnemonic formula (e.g. Mao Zedong's 16-character mantra 十六字訣|十六字诀 on guerrilla warfare)
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)
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  *茅* | 茅* | *茅
surname Mao
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  *茅* | 茅* | *茅
reeds / rushes
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  *矛* | 矛* | *矛
spear / lance / pike
one Jiao coin (Mao, one-tenth of yuan)
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  *帽* | 帽* | *帽
hat / cap
Silkworms in Spring (1933), Chinese silent movie in socialist realist style, based on novel by Mao Dun 茅盾
Mao Zedong Thought
adventurism (a left-wing error against Mao's line during the 1930s)
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  *鉚* | 鉚* | *鉚
to fasten with rivets / (coll.) to exert one's strength
people's war, military strategy advocated by Mao whereby a large number of ordinary citizens provide support in a campaign
purge of counterrevolutionaries (esp. Mao's purge of hidden counterrevolutionaries 1955-56 and Stalin's Great Purge 1936-38)
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  *戼* | 戼* | *戼
old variant of
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  *酕* | 酕* | *酕
used in 酕醄
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  *瑁* | 瑁* | *瑁
(jade)
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  *毷* | 毷* | *毷
restless
War of Liberation (1945-49), after which the Communists 共產黨武裝|共产党武装 under Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 took over from the Nationalists 國民政府|国民政府 under Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石
Autumn Harvest Uprising (1927), insurrection in Hunan and Jiangxi provinces led by Mao Zedong
Chinese tunic suit / Mao jacket / CL:
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  *冃* | 冃* | *冃
old variant of / hat / cap
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  *鄮* | 鄮* | *鄮
ancient place name
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  *媢* | 媢* | *媢
envious
sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences (abbr. for 糖衣炮彈|糖衣炮弹)
Mt Mao, Daoist mountain southeast of Jurong county 句容, Jiangsu Province
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  *髳* | 髳* | *髳
bang (hair) / fashionable / mane
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  *耄* | 耄* | *耄
extremely aged (in one's 80s or 90s) / octogenarian / nonagenarian
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  *蟊* | 蟊* | *蟊
Spanish fly / grain-eating grub
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  *卯* | 卯* | *卯
mortise (slot cut into wood to receive a tenon) / 4th earthly branch: 5-7 a.m., 2nd solar month (6th March-4th April), year of the Rabbit / ancient Chinese compass point: 90° (east) / variant of 鉚|铆 / to exert one's strength
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  *昴* | 昴* | *昴
the Pleiades
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  *茆* | 茆* | *茆
type of water plant / (dialect) loess hills
Rectification campaign / political purge / cf Mao's 1942-44 campaign at Yanan, and his 1950 and 1957 anti-rightist purges
Anti-Rightist Movement, Mao's purge of "rightists" after the Hundred Flowers Campaign ended in 1957
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  *旄* | 旄* | *旄
banner decorated with animal's tail
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  *眊* | 眊* | *眊
having poor eyesight
lit. to keep ding (the fourth heavenly stem) distinct from mao (the fourth earthly branch) (idiom) / fig. meticulous / conscientious / unambiguous
Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning
Mao Sui (third century BC), who proverbially offered his services to the King of Chu , see 毛遂自薦|毛遂自荐
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  *峁* | 峁* | *峁
round yellow dirt mount (in the Northwest of China)
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  *蝥* | 蝥* | *蝥
variant of
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  *皃* | 皃* | *皃
variant of
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  *茆* | 茆* | *茆
variant of / thatch
On New Democracy (1940), by Mao Zedong
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  *旄* | 旄* | *旄
variant of
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  *㡌* | 㡌* | *㡌
old variant of
Shanbei, northern Shaanxi province, including Yulin 榆林 and Yan'an 延安, a Holy Land of Mao's revolution 革命聖地|革命圣地
Jiang Qing (1914-1991), Mao Zedong's fourth wife and leader of the Gang of Four
Wang Ming (1904-1974), Soviet-trained Chinese communist, Comintern and Soviet stooge and left adventurist in the 1930s, fell out with Mao and moved to Soviet Union from 1956
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  *夘* | 夘* | *夘
variant of
the "Little Red Book" of selected writings of Mao Zedong (refers to 毛主席語錄|毛主席语录)
He Zizhen (1910-1984), Mao Zedong's third wife
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  *氂* | 氂* | *氂
yak (Bos grunniens)
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang 張戎|张戎 and Jon Halliday
Jin Mao Tower, skyscraper in Shanghai
Alai (1959-), ethnic Tibetan Chinese writer, awarded Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2000 for his novel 塵埃落定|尘埃落定 "Red Poppies"
thirty percent failure, seventy percent success, the official PRC verdict on Mao Zedong
the Three Worlds (as proposed by Mao Zedong), i.e. the superpowers (USA and USSR), other wealthy countries (UK, France, Japan etc), and the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America
the Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention, a military doctrine issued in 1928 by Mao Zedong for the Red Army, which included a number of injunctions demanding high standards of behavior and respect for civilians during wartime
socialism with Chinese characteristics, phrase introduced by the CCP in 1986 to refer to its ideological model, embracing the economic reforms of the post-Mao era
Liu Binyan (1925-2005), journalist and novelist, condemned by Mao as rightist faction in 1957, subsequently dissident writer
16-character formula, esp. Mao Zedong's mantra on guerrilla warfare: 敵進我退敵駐我擾敵疲我打敵退我追|敌进我退敌驻我扰敌疲我打敌退我追 when the enemy advances we retreat; when the enemy makes camp we harass; when the enemy is exhausted we fight; and when the enemy retreats we pursue
Anti-Rightist Movement, Mao's purge of "rightists" after the Hundred Flowers Campaign ended in 1957
the Great Helmsman (Mao Zedong)
Jung Chang 張戎|张戎 (1952-), British-Chinese writer, author of Wild Swans 野天鵝|野天鹅 and Mao: The Unknown Story 毛澤東·鮮為人知的故事|毛泽东·鲜为人知的故事
Jung Chang (1952-), British-Chinese writer, name at birth Zhang Erhong 張二鴻|张二鸿, author of Wild Swans 野天鵝|野天鹅 and Mao: The Unknown Story 毛澤東·鮮為人知的故事|毛泽东·鲜为人知的故事
Peng Dehuai (1898-1974), top communist general, subsequently politician and politburo member, disgraced after attacking Mao's failed policies in 1959, and died after extensive persecution during the Cultural Revolution
Yang Kaihui (1901-1930), Mao Zedong's second wife
On the correct handling of internal contradictions among the people, Mao Zedong's tract of 1957
Chairman Mao / Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 (1893-1976), Chinese Communist leader
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, published from 1964 to about 1976
statue of Chairman Mao Zedong (1893-1976) 毛澤東|毛泽东
Mao Zedong (1893-1976), leader of the Chinese Communist Party 1935-1976
Selected Works of Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong’s birthday, December 26th

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