mián​mào

cotton-padded hat

mián cotton

Silk  picked off a tree

Components

Meaning component
tree
Meaning component
silks

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangmen
Unicodemiɛn

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang

mào hat

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
jīn cloth
SoundMeaning component
mào risk

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartmawHmˤuk-s hat

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart