Kanji Detail for 毫 - "fine hair, slight, brush, unit"

毫

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
毫 means "fine hair, slight, brush, unit."
1. Fine hair - A slender strand of hair.
2. Slight - A little; barely.
3. Brush - A writing brush.
4. Unit - A measure of length or weight; one-tenth of a li.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

fine hair; brush; not at all

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

fine hair; measure of length

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

hair; drawing brush; (in the) least; one thousandth; currency unit, 0.1 yuan

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

fine hair; measure of length; one-thousandth

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

Long sharp hair. In autumn, new hair grows, called "autumn hair" (秋毫). | A small unit in weighing and measuring. Ten threads (絲) make one 毫; ten 毫 make one 釐. One ten-thousandth of a unit. | Brushes are made of hair, hence called 毫. As in purple hair brush (紫毫), sheep hair brush (羊毫). | A word indicating something extremely fine. As in 毫釐, 毫末 (the slightest amount). Colloquially, completely none is also called 毫無.
Onyomi

goh(ごう)

koh(こう)
Kunyomi

suko.shi(すこし)
Strokes

11 strokes
Radical

毛 (ke)
Related Keywords
fine hair slender strand slight little barely brush writing unit measure length weight tenth