戼
mǎo

4th of Earth Branches

卯 mǎo
variants 夘,戼
4th earthly branch
The fourth of the twelve earthly branches, associated with the rabbit; used to represent the period from 5:00 to 7:00 a.m., the second solar month, or the direction east.
mortise
A hole or slot cut into a piece of wood or other material, designed to receive a corresponding tenon to form a joint.
roll call
The morning roll call or sign-in at ancient government offices, which typically occurred during the mǎo hour.
to exert
To put forth or concentrate one's strength; this usage is synonymous with 铆 mǎo.

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Frequency
Movie subtitles
0.750 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.65 per million

Details
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+623C

Sources
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)