芼
mào

to choose

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartmawHmˤaw(k)-scull and cook
Zhengzhangmaːw
maːws
Unicodemɑ̀u

說文解字

艸覆蔓。从艸毛聲。《詩》曰：“左右芼之。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)