卯
mǎo

4th terrestrial branch

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.
卯 mǎo
to confront
To face off against; to clash or come up against someone, often used in the phrase 卯上 mǎo​shang.
surname
A Chinese surname

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Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,926th most common 3.19 per million
Movie subtitles
4,067th most common 0.530 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.750 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.65 per million

Details
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+536F

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)