mào

longitude

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
衣 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

clothes

矛 sound component

  Sound component

máo

  

spear

Evolution

袤 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
袤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
袤 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
袤 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

mào

longitude, lengthwise; length; distance from north to south

Most common words with 袤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

广袤

vast

length