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冒 — to emit; to give off; to send out

to emit; to give off; to send out; to brave; to face; reckless

Pinyin
mào · Mào
Strokes
9
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — mào, Mào — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 冒: 9 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

冒 — 9 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 冒

Words with 冒 in the HSK syllabus: 7

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 感冒gǎnmàoto catch cold; cold; to be interested in; to detestHSK 3
  2. 冒màoto emit; to give off; to send out; to brave; to faceHSK 6
  3. 冒险màoxiǎnto take risks; to take chances; foray; adventureHSK 6
  4. 假冒jiǎmàoto impersonate; to pose as; to counterfeitHSK 7–9
  5. 冒充màochōngto feign; to pretend to be; to pass oneself off asHSK 7–9
  6. 冒犯màofànto offendHSK 7–9
  7. 冒昧màomèibold; presumptuous; to take the liberty ofHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.