冒

冒 (radical 13, 冂+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日月山 (ABU), four-corner 6060₀, composition ⿱日目 (J) or ⿱⺜目 (GTKV))

• 帽

• KangXi: page 129, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1538
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1499, character 12
• Unihan data for U+5192

Historical forms of the character 冒
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 冃 (“hat”) + 目 (“eyes”).

Original meaning was “to cover”.

Sino-Tibetan. Schuessler (2007) connects it with Proto-Sino-Tibetan *muːŋ ~ r/s-muːk (“sky, clouds, fog, dark, covered”), whence Burmese မိုး (mui:, “sky; rain; to hold something over the head; roof”), Tibetan མུ (mu), དམུ (dmu), རྨུ (rmu), སྨུ (smu, “(archaic) sky”).

Derivative: 帽 (OC *muːɡs, “hat”).

冒

1. ^† to cover
2. ^† cloth used to dress a corpse; sack for corpses
3. ^† to wear a hat
4. ^† Original form of 帽 (mào, “hat”).
5. ^† to pretend to be

   假冒  ―  jiǎmào  ―  fake

   冒名  ―  màomíng  ―  to go under someone else's name

6. to risk; to brave; to face

   冒險 / 冒险  ―  màoxiǎn  ―  to adventure

   冒雨  ―  màoyǔ  ―  to brave the rain

   冒著生命危險 / 冒着生命危险  ―  màozhe shēngmìng wēixiǎn  ―  risking one's life

7. ^† bold; thoughtless; boldly

   冒失  ―  màoshī  ―  thoughtlessly

8. ^† to encroach on; to violate

   冒犯  ―  màofàn  ―  to offend

9. ^† to receive; to suffer from
10. to emit; to give off; to send out

    冒煙 / 冒烟  ―  màoyān  ―  to give off smoke

11. (Mandarin) to appear; to emerge
12. (dialectal Mandarin, of water) to boil
13. (dialectal Mandarin, Wu) to vomit or to have diarrhoea
14. (dialectal Mandarin) to cover rice or noodles with vegetables and meat; to put broth over noodles or rice

    冒菜  ―  màocài  ―  maocai [a local dish of Sichuan]

15. Alternative form of 冇 (mǎo, “to not have”).
16. ^† Substitute character for 懋 (mào, “to encourage”).
17. ^† Substitute character for 芼 (mào, “name of a vegetable”).
18. ^† Original form of 瑁 (mào, “ceremonial jade”).

“Covetous”. Compare 每 (OC *mɯːʔ, “to covet”).

冒

1. ^† Original form of 媢 (mào, “to envy”).
2. ^† to be greedy for; covetous

冒

1. ^† Only used in 瑇冒 and 毒冒, both are alternative forms of 玳瑁 (dàimào).

Transcription character, preserving the original pronunciation at the time of borrowing.

冒

1. Only used in 冒頓／冒顿 (Mòdú, “name of a Xiongnu chieftain”).

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. risk

• Go-on: もう (mō); もく (moku)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō, Jōyō); ぼく (boku)
• On: まい (mai); ばい (bai); ぼく (boku)
• Kun: おかす (okasu, 冒す, Jōyō)^{←をかす (wokasu, historical)}; おおう (ōu, 冒う)^{←おほふ (ofofu, historical)}

冒 • (mo, mok) (hangeul 모, 목, revised mo, mok, McCune–Reischauer mo, mok)

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冒 (mạo, mào, mẹo)

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