冒
Meanings · mou6
- (verb) 1. Taking risk (to do things); 2. Rise up (from water etc.)
Meanings · mak6
- to covet glory and wealth
- part of a name (Modu Chanyu)
Meanings · mou6
- to emit
- to give off
- to send out (or up, forth)
- brave
- bold
- to cover
- to act under false pretences
- to risk
- to dare
- to burst
- rash
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 冒 Mào CC-CEDICT · Mandarinsurname Mao
- 冒 mào CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth); to brave; to face; (bound form) reckless; to falsely adopt (sb's identity etc); to feign; (literary) to cover
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: mao4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 22 senses · 2 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
mak6 · mou6
Cantonese word readings for 冒. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character · Etymology 1
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to cover
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) cloth used to dress a corpse; sack for corpses
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to wear a hat
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) original form of 帽 (mào, “hat”)
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to pretend to be
- to risk; to brave; to face
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) bold; thoughtless; boldly
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to encroach on; to violate
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to receive; to suffer from
- to emit; to give off; to send out
- (Mandarin) to appear; to emerge
- (dialectal Mandarin, of water) to boil
- (dialectal Mandarin, Wu) to vomit or to have diarrhoea
- (dialectal Mandarin) to cover rice or noodles with vegetables and meat; to put broth over noodles or rice
- (alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 冇 (“to not have”)
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Substitute character for 懋 (mào, “to encourage”).
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Substitute character for 芼 (mào, “name of a vegetable”).
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) original form of 瑁 (mào, “ceremonial jade”)
character · Etymology 2
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) original form of 媢 (mào, “to envy”)
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to be greedy for; covetous
character · Etymology 3
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) only used in 瑇冒 and 毒冒, both are alternative forms of 玳瑁 (dàimào)
character · Etymology 5
- only used in 冒頓／冒顿 (Mòdú, “name of a Xiongnu chieftain”)
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