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])
māo
cat
CL:隻|只[zhi1]
(dialect) to hide oneself
(coll.) modem
mào
to emit
to give off
to send out (or up, forth)
brave
bold
to cover
to act under false pretences
jiàn guó
to found a country
nation-building
the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949
mào
to be hardworking
luxuriant
splendid
mǎo
to fasten with rivets
(coll.) to exert one's strength
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
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
Jiāng Qīng
Jiang Qing (1914-1991), Mao Zedong's fourth wife and leader of the Gang of Four
mào
luxuriant
(chemistry) cyclopentadiene
Máo Zé dōng
Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Chinese communist leader
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
Yáng Kāi huì
Yang Kaihui (1901-1930), Mao Zedong's second wife
mǎo
to not have (Cantonese)
Mandarin equivalent: 沒有|没有[mei2 you3]
Máo Dùn
Mao Dun (1896-1981), Chinese novelist
mǎo
type of water plant
(dialect) loess hills
máo
variant of 茅[mao2]
thatch
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
Máo zhǔ xí
Chairman Mao
Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 (1893-1976), Chinese communist leader
Hè Zǐ zhēn
He Zizhen (1910-1984), Mao Zedong's third wife
Máo Zé dōng sī xiǎng
Mao Zedong Thought
Maoism
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
Jīn mào Dà shà
Jin Mao Tower, skyscraper in Shanghai
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)
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
Chūn cán
Silkworms in Spring (1933), Chinese silent movie in socialist realist style, based on novel by Mao Dun 茅盾[Mao2 Dun4]
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
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"
mào
extremely aged (in one's 80s or 90s)
octogenarian
nonagenarian
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
máo
bang (hair)
fashionable
mane
mǎo
round yellow dirt mount (in the Northwest of China)
mào
length
distance from north to south
jiǎo zi
one Jiao coin (Mao, one-tenth of yuan)
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