Taxonomy of meanings for 旄:
- 旄 mào (OC: moows MC: mɑu) 莫報切 去 廣韻：【狗足旄毛 】
- AGE
- nsubject=humanloan for 耄: those, who are 80/90 years of age
- = 耄
- = 眊
- AGE
- 旄 máo (OC: moow MC: mɑu) 莫袍切 平 廣韻：【旄鉞書曰武王右秉白旄史記曰昴星曰旄頭星徐援釋疑曰乗輿黄麾内羽仗斑弓箭左罼右䍐執罼者冠熊皮冠謂之髦頭也 】
Additional information about 旄
說文解字: 【旄】，幢也。从㫃、从毛，毛亦聲。 〔小徐本作「从㫃、毛聲。」〕 【莫袍 切】
- Criteria
- TAIL
1. The general word for a tail of any animal, including birds, is wěi 尾.
2. Máo 旄 can refer specifically to the tail of a bovine.
- BOVINE
[CONGERIES]
1. The current general word for bovines of any kind is niú 牛.
2. Xī 犀 is the standard word for a rhinoceros.
3. Sì 兕 refers to an unidentified large wild ox which was currently hunted in Shang Dynasty times.
4. Máo 旄 refers to the yak-ox generally, famous for profuse growth of hair all over the body and the limbs.
5. Máo 犛 refers to the black yak-ox, but the word is as rare as was, presumably, the animal in central parts of China.
6. Láo 牢 refers to an bovine specially reared for sacrificial person, and the word is ubiquitous in OBI.
7. Xī sì 犀兕 is a generic term referring to rhino-like bovines, and the compound is never referential referring to one specific beast of this kind.
- FUR
1. The general word for the fur of animals is máo 毛.
2. Cuì 毳 refers specifically to the fine hair or down on the skin of animals or humans.
3. Máo 旄 refers specifically to the fine fur of calves, but the word is used generally for the fur of animals.
4. Háo 毫 refers to thin long hair and is (perhaps somewhat surprisingly) often used metaphorically for anything tiny.