mào
noun #4,278

Meanings

  1. 1 hat; cap; headgear

Examples

Wàimiàn hěn lěng, dài shàng màozi ba.
It's cold outside, put on a hat.
Tā zhāi xià le màozi.
He took off his hat.

Tips

usage
usually appears as 帽子 (màozi, hat). Types include 草帽 (cǎomào, straw hat), 棒球 (bàngqiú mào, baseball cap), and 安全帽 (ānquán mào, hard hat).

Components

radical
jīn
cloth; kerchief (radical)
Left radical — a piece of cloth hanging from a horizontal rod, the picture of a kerchief. Marks as a textile object worn on the body. Same radical anchors the cloth-family: (fabric), (curtain), (sail), (belt), (mat). Anything woven sits in this family.
phonetic
mào
to cover the head; risk (phonetic)
Right phonetic supplies the full sound mào with no drift, and a strong layer of meaning: itself originally pictured a hat over an eye ( + ), the picture of headwear. So is essentially 'hat' written twice — first the cloth radical, then the older hat-graph — to disambiguate after took on extended senses (risk, brave).

Stroke Order

mào