皃
mào

face, countenance

Depicts a person's (人) face.

Components

◎
◎ Iconic component
characterless component

Depicts a face.

人
人 Iconic component
rén, ren person

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Iconic (2)

兜敫

Sound (1)

貌

Meaning (1)

貌

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangmreːwɢs
mreːwɢ

說文解字

《說文》：“皃，頌儀也。从人，白象人面形。，皃或从頁，豹省聲。貌，籀文皃，从豹省。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.690-691
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)