HSK Guide

部首 82hair, 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

部首 824 画0 汉字

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.

汉字 filed under

No published character on HSK Guide is filed under this radical yet. 汉字库.