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毛
“hair; fur; feather”
毛 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese.
Chinese and Japanese and Vietnamese and unknownWritten in Chinese characters script.
Meaning & origin
What it means
毛 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/r-m(u/i/ja)l, meaning “hair; fur; feather.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/r-m(u/i/ja)l (“hair; fur; feather”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
毛’s family of names
In Chinese usage, 毛 as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the French form MAO.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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