袤 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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mào

longitude

Phonosemantic compound. 衣 represents the meaning and 矛 represents the sound.

Components

衣 Meaning component

yī, yì

clothes

矛 Sound component

máo

spear

Evolution

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

mào

longitude, lengthwise; length; distance from north to south

Most common words with 袤

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	广袤	vast
	袤	length

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4129th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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