hàomào

to waste

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhanghmaːws
hmɯːbs

說文解字

稻屬。从禾毛聲。伊尹曰:“飯之美者,玄山之禾,南海之秏。”

Sources

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