冒 (mào)
to emit/to give off/to risk/to pretend to be
How 冒 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 冂 — upside down box
- Traditional
- 冒
- Simplified
- 冒 (unchanged)
Common words using 冒
- 感冒 gǎnmào
- to catch cold; (common) cold; CL:場|场[chang2],次[ci4]
- 假冒 jiǎmào
- to impersonate; to pose as (someone else); to counterfeit
- 冒充 màochōng
- to feign; to pretend to be; to pass oneself off as
- 冒煙 màoyān
- to discharge smoke; to fume with rage
- 冒險 màoxiǎn
- to take risks; to take chances; foray
- 冒雨 màoyǔ
- to brave the rain
- 感冒藥 gǎnmàoyào
- medicine for colds
- 仿冒 fǎngmào
- to counterfeit; fake
- 冒冒失失 màomàoshīshī
- bold; forthright
- 冒名 màomíng
- an impostor; to impersonate
- 冒名頂替 màomíngdǐngtì
- to assume sb's name and take his place (idiom); to impersonate; to pose under a false name
- 冒天下之大不韙 màotiānxiàzhīdàbùwěi
- to defy world opinion; to risk universal condemnation
冒 in a sentence
這碗湯還很燙，一直在冒煙。
Zhè wǎn tāng hái hěn tàng, yìzhí zài màoyān.
“This bowl of soup is still very hot; it keeps steaming.”
How common is 冒?
冒 is the 1,220th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 92.1% of all running text.
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