Chinese English Pinyin Dictionary

• 毛
  máo

  hair feather down wool mildew mold coarse or semifinished young raw careless unthinking nervous scared (of currency) to devalue or depreciate classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiao3] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fen1])
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• 毛
  Máo

  surname Mao
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• 猫 Trad. 貓
  māo

  cat CL:隻|只[zhi1] (dialect) to hide oneself (coll.) modem
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• 冒
  mào

  to emit to give off to send out (or up, forth) brave bold to cover to act under false pretences
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• 昴
  mǎo

  the Pleiades
• 建国 Trad. 建國
  jiàn guó

  to found a country nation-building the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949
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• 懋
  mào

  to be hardworking luxuriant splendid
• 帽
  mào

  hat cap
• 貌
  mào

  appearance
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• 牦 Trad. 氂
  máo

  yak (Bos grunniens)
• 矛
  máo

  spear lance pike
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• 铆 Trad. 鉚
  mǎo

  to fasten with rivets (coll.) to exert one's strength
• 毛片
  máo piān

  see 毛片[máo piàn]
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• 彭德怀 Trad. 彭德懷
  Péng Dé huái

  Peng Dehuai (1898-1974), top communist general, subsequently politician and politburo member, disgraced after attacking Mao's failed policies in 1959, and died after extensive persecution during the Cultural Revolution
• 眉毛
  méi mao

  eyebrow CL:根[gen1]
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• 锚 Trad. 錨
  máo

  anchor
• 白求恩
  Bái Qiú ēn

  Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning
• 江青
  Jiāng Qīng

  Jiang Qing (1914-1991), Mao Zedong's fourth wife and leader of the Gang of Four
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• 贸 Trad. 貿
  mào

  commerce trade
• 茂
  mào

  luxuriant (chemistry) cyclopentadiene
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• 茅
  Máo

  surname Mao
• 茅
  máo

  reeds rushes
• 毛泽东 Trad. 毛澤東
  Máo Zé dōng

  Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Chinese communist leader
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• 卯
  mǎo

  mortise (slot cut into wood to receive a tenon) 4th earthly branch: 5-7 a.m., 2nd solar month (6th March-4th April), year of the Rabbit ancient Chinese compass point: 90° (east) variant of 鉚|铆[mao3] to exert one's strength
• 杨开慧 Trad. 楊開慧
  Yáng Kāi huì

  Yang Kaihui (1901-1930), Mao Zedong's second wife
• 毛毛
  máo mao

  baby
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• 冇
  mǎo

  to not have (Cantonese) Mandarin equivalent: 沒有|没有[mei2 you3]
• 茅盾
  Máo Dùn

  Mao Dun (1896-1981), Chinese novelist
• 茆
  mǎo

  type of water plant (dialect) loess hills
• 茆
  máo

  variant of 茅[mao2] thatch
• 陕北 Trad. 陝北
  Shǎn běi

  Shanbei, northern Shaanxi province, including Yulin 榆林 and Yan'an 延安, a Holy Land of Mao's revolution 革命聖地|革命圣地
• 毛毛虫 Trad. 毛毛蟲
  máo mao chóng

  caterpillar
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• 毛主席
  Máo zhǔ xí

  Chairman Mao Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 (1893-1976), Chinese communist leader
• 贺子珍 Trad. 賀子珍
  Hè Zǐ zhēn

  He Zizhen (1910-1984), Mao Zedong's third wife
• 毛泽东思想 Trad. 毛澤東思想
  Máo Zé dōng sī xiǎng

  Mao Zedong Thought Maoism
• 解放战争 Trad. 解放戰爭
  jiě fàng zhàn zhēng

  War of Liberation (1945-49), when the Communists 共產黨武裝|共产党武装 under Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 took over from the Nationalists 國民政府|国民政府 under Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石
• 金茂大厦 Trad. 金茂大廈
  Jīn mào Dà shà

  Jin Mao Tower, skyscraper in Shanghai
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• 毛遂自荐 Trad. 毛遂自薦
  Máo Suì zì jiàn

  Mao Sui recommends himself (idiom); to offer one's services (in the style of Mao Sui offering his services to king of Chu 楚 of the Warring states)
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• 王明
  Wáng Míng

  Wang Ming (1904-1974), Soviet trained Chinese communist, Comintern and Soviet stooge and left adventurist in the 1930s, fell out with Mao and moved to Soviet Union from 1956
• 瑁
  mào

  (jade)
• 毛主席纪念堂 Trad. 毛主席紀念堂
  Máo Zhǔ xí Jì niàn táng

  Mausoleum of Mao Zedong
• 春蚕 Trad. 春蠶
  Chūn cán

  Silkworms in Spring (1933), Chinese silent movie in socialist realist style, based on novel by Mao Dun 茅盾[Mao2 Dun4]
• 茂县 Trad. 茂縣
  Mào xiàn

  Mao county in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州[A1 ba4 Zang4 zu2 Qiang1 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], northwest Sichuan
• 阿来 Trad. 阿來
  Ā lái

  Alai (1959-), ethnic Tibetan Chinese writer, awarded Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2000 for his novel 塵埃落定|尘埃落定[Chen2 ai1 luo4 ding4] "Red Poppies"
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• 耄
  mào

  extremely aged (in one's 80s or 90s) octogenarian nonagenarian
• 百花齐放，百家争鸣 Trad. 百花齊放，百家爭鳴
  bǎi huā qí fàng , bǎi jiā zhēng míng

  a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC, but adopted for Mao's campaign of 1956
• 髦
  máo

  bang (hair) fashionable mane
• 峁
  mǎo

  round yellow dirt mount (in the Northwest of China)
• 袤
  mào

  length distance from north to south
• 角子
  jiǎo zi

  one Jiao coin (Mao, one-tenth of yuan)
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