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máo

anchor

🔤 Pictophonetic: 钅 (metal) provides meaning, 苗 provides pronunciation

HSK 13 strokes Uncommon (35%)

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Component Breakdown

Each color represents a different component

sprouts; Miao nationality

⿰钅苗 i

Stroke Order

Component Tree i

jīn

钅

gold, metal; money

📷 Pictographic: A cast-iron bell; compare 金

5 strokes

miáo

苗

sprouts; Miao nationality

💡 Ideographic: Grass 艹 growing in a field 田

8 strokes HSK 5

cǎo

艹

grass, weed, plant, herb

📷 Pictographic: Simplified form of 艸; grass sprouting

3 strokes

tián

田

field, farm, arable land; cultivated

📷 Pictographic: The plots of a rice paddy

5 strokes HSK 6

jiōng

冂

wide

2 strokes

tǔ

土

soil, earth; items made of earth

📷 Pictographic: A lump of clay on a potter's wheel

3 strokes HSK 5

shí

十

ten, tenth; complete; perfect

2 strokes HSK 1

yī

一

one; a, an; alone

💡 Ideographic: Represents heaven (天), earth (旦), or the number 1

1 strokes HSK 1

Words Using 锚 (8)

Character

Pinyin

Definition

HSK

抛锚 ↗

pāomáo

to drop anchor / to break down (of a car etc)

pāomáo

抛锚 ↗

to drop anchor / to break down (of a car etc)

hawsehole (small hole for anchor cable or hawser in the side of ship)

máoliànkǒng

锚链孔 ↗

hawsehole (small hole for anchor cable or hawser in the side of ship)