mào
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (in 玳瑁) hawksbill turtle; tortoiseshell

Examples

Zhè fù yǎnjìng shì dàimào kuàng de.
This pair of glasses has a tortoiseshell frame.
Dàimào rújīn shì bǎohù dòngwù.
The hawksbill turtle is now a protected species.

Tips

usage
Bound to 玳瑁 — the hawksbill sea turtle and the prized tortoiseshell from its shell. (In ancient ritual texts the same character also names a jade tablet, but that sense is archaic.)

Components

radical
jade
Left side is the jade radical, written like but standing for . It comes from the character's old sense of a ceremonial jade tablet; the polished tortoiseshell meaning kept the same radical.
phonetic
mào
to emit; (here) sound
Right side supplies the sound mào; the same phonetic gives its reading too.

Stroke Order

mào