máo
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 long hair hanging over the forehead (archaic)
  2. 2 fashionable; trendy (used in 时髦)

Examples

Zhè gè nǚhái chuān de hěn shímáo.
This girl dresses very fashionably.
Xiànzài chuān zhè zhǒng kuǎnshì yǐjīng bù shímáo le.
Wearing this style now is no longer fashionable.

Tips

usage
Modern Chinese mostly uses it in 时髦 (fashionable, trendy). The original meaning — a child's long forelock, and by extension an outstanding talent — is now confined to classical texts.

Components

radical
biāo
long hair (radical)
Top-and-left long-hair radical , a picture of flowing hair. It marks as a hair word — originally the long forelock of a child.
phonetic
máo
hair; fur; feather
Below sits , giving the exact sound máo and reinforcing the meaning — itself is hair or fur, doubling the hair sense in .

Stroke Order

máo