móu

to put forth effort

To strike  someone with a spear 

Components

Meaning component
máo spear
Meaning component
tap

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 7 verified)

Meaning (0 of 3 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangmoʔ
mos

說文解字

彊也。从攴矛聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica