Keyword
reeds
- rushes
- grass
- surname
- Frequency
- #2490
- Strokes
- 8
Readings
máo
Mnemonic
艹 (grass) gives the meaning and 矛 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
名列前茅
to rank among the best
茅台
Maotai town in Renhuai county, Guizhou
茅
reeds; rushes
茅盾
Mao Dun (1896-1981), Chinese novelist
茅台酒
maotai (a strong spirit produced in Guizhou)
茅山
Mt Mao, Daoist mountain southeast of Jurong county 句容 (Jùróng), Jiangsu Province
茅屋
thatched cottage
茅厕
(dialect) latrine
前茅
forward patrol (military) (old); (fig.) the top ranks
茅坑
latrine pit; latrine
茅房
toilet (rural euphemism); thatched hut or house
初出茅庐
venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom); young and inexperienced; novice; greenhorn
普利茅斯
Plymouth
茅盾文学奖
Mao Dun Literature Prize, PRC prize for novel writing, awarded since 1982
达特茅斯
Dartmouth (place name)
朴次茅斯
Portsmouth, southern English seaport
香茅
lemongrass (Cymbopogon)
茅庐
thatched cottage
茅以升
Mao Yisheng (1896-1989), Chinese structural engineer and social activist
茅塞顿开
murky darkness suddenly opens (idiom); a sudden flash of insight and all is clear
茅舍
cottage; hut
三顾茅庐
lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三国演义 (SānguóYǎnyì) in which Liu Bei 刘备 (LiúBèi) recruits Zhuge Liang 诸葛亮 (ZhūgěLiàng) to his cause by visiting him three times); fig. to make earnest and repeated requests of sb
白茅
cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica), used as thatching material in China and Indonesia
茅棚
thatched shed