The Chinese Radical: 毛


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Meaning
fur    毛

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 2
pencil, pen, writing brush

Top: bamboo , below: hair
Made of bamboo and at the end a tuft of hair: the brush or pencil.  
JLPT HSK 4
hair, feather, down
máo

Image of a bunch of hair  
JLPT HSK 5
hair, drawing brush, milli..., 1/1000
háo
Top: variant of high (guard tower), bottom: hair
As high as a hair: the hair or 1 millimeter.  
JLPT HSK 5
tail, remainder, remnant, extremity
wěi
Top: buttock (in side-view), bottom: hair
At the back, the hair turns into: a tail.  
JLPT HSK 5
blanket, rug, carpet
tǎn
Left: hair, feather , right: flame, inflammation
It is made of wool and underneath it is as hot as flames: The blanket.  
JLPT HSK 5
bangs (hair), fashionable, mane
máo
Top: mane (=long hair ), bottom: hair, feathers
Mane-like hair are are real mane and even: fashionable.  
JLPT HSK 6
decrease, to waste, squander, spend, wear and tear
hào
Left: (tree with many branches), right: hair
A tree as with hair shows its: decrease.  
JLPT no HSK
felt (fabric)
zhān
Left: wool , right: fortunetelling (Here: hammer with handle and body )
The wool is worked with a hammer until it is: felt.  
JLPT no HSK
to pry open, to lever open, to lift
qiào
Left: hand /, right: triple hair
The hand that makes one hair into two hair has pried open.  
JLPT no HSK
enchanting, agreeable, active, comply with
wěi
Left: woman , right: tail, remainder 尾 (The hair at the buttocks )
Women with (horse)tails can be enchanting.  

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