茆
máomǎo

species of grass

Components

艹
艹 Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

grass

卯
卯 Sound component
mǎo 4th terrestrial branch

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartmæwXmˤruʔBrasenia
Zhengzhangmruːʔ
m·ruʔ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica