Simplified radical:艹,部外笔画:5,总笔画:8

Traditional radical:cursive,部外笔画:5,总笔画:11

Five strokes 86&98:AQTB 仓颉:THHL

Stroke Number:12235352 Quadrangle Number:44727 UniCode:CJK Unified Chinese Character U+8306

Mao máo

(1) Same as "茅"

覆之以茆. --Ming Liu Ji (劉基)《诚意伯刘文成公文集》

(2) See also mǎo

Basic Etymology

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◎茆 mǎo

〈名〉

(1) Ulva [water shield]. Water lily family. A perennial aquatic herb

Thinly picking its water plants. --Poetry - Lu Song - Pan Shui (泮水)

(2) 〈Fang〉:the loess hills [loess hills] with rounded tops and steep slopes, as they are called in the northwest of China

(3) See also máo