Chinese Character Wiki

瑁

mào

fine piece of jade

Components
王 meaning component

王  Meaning component

wáng, wàng

  

king

jade

冒 sound component

冒  Sound component

mào

  

risk

Evolution

瑁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
瑁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
瑁 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
瑁 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

瑁  

mào

fine piece of jade; (jade)

Most common words with 瑁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

瑁

(jade)

玳瑁

tortoiseshell

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4651st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+7441

Shuowen

“瑁，諸侯執圭朝天子，天子執玉以冒之，似犁冠。《周禮》曰：‘天子執瑁，四寸。’从玉、冒，冒亦聲。，古文省。”


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