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Kanji Detail for 毛 - "hair, fine, growth"

  • Meaning

    毛 means "hair, fine, growth."

    1. Hair - Fur or hair on living beings.

    2. Tiny - Something very small; minute.

    3. Growth - Plants growing; crops ripening.

    4. Ratio unit - One-tenth of one rin.

    5. Length, Weight Unit - A measurement unit.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    fur; hair; feather; down

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    hair, fur, feathers; coarse

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Mao

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    hair, fur, feathers; coarse

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Fine soft material growing on the outer skin of animals to protect body temperature. Mammals have their whole body covered with hair, hence also called "hairy creatures" (毛蟲). | Human facial hair and head hair are called 毛. As in 二毛 (two-colored hair), referring to a person with graying hair. | Duties are also called 毛. As in "a land without hair" (不毛之地), meaning barren land with no living things. | Colloquially, crude or rough things are called 毛. As in rough sample (毛樣), rough form (毛坏). | Anything metaphorically fine and numerous is also called 毛. As in "raising trivial matters one by one" (毛舉細故). | 毫釐 (minute amount)'s 毫 is sometimes simplified to 毛.
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Sentences including

  • Her hair is long.

  • I'd like one more blanket.

  • May i have a blanket?

  • Can i get a blanket?

  • Her hair is long and beautiful.

  • His hair stood on end.

  • It made my hair stand on end.

  • A lot of my hair has fallen out.

  • His hair stood on end.

  • My mother cut my hair too short.

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