毛 Radical 82 — hair, fur, feather, down; a mao — one tenth of a yuan
máo (second tone, rising)
hair, fur, feather, down; a mao — one tenth of a yuan
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Where the shape comes from
A single feather or tuft: the shaft curves up and the barbs branch off it. It names body hair and animal coats — 羊毛 is wool, 毛巾 a towel, literally the napped cloth — and in everyday money talk 一毛 is a tenth of a yuan, the spoken form of written 角.
characters filed under 毛
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