Word and Radical Components of 眉毛

The Chinese word 眉毛 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
眉毛	méimáo	1. n. eyebrow
眉毛		2. usage. In Cantonese, it usually refers to the individual hairs on the eyebrow, not the entire eyebrow itself.

眉毛 ⇨ 眉 + 毛

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
眉	méi	1. eyebrow
		2. (by extension) upper margin of a book, leaflet, or page; header
		Antonyms: 腳
毛	máo, Máo	1. hair (of humans or animals); fur; feather
		雞毛 - chicken feather
		2. (dialectal) hair on the head
		3. mildew; mold
		4. (colloquial) jiao; one tenth of a yuan or dollar; ten cents; dime
		一毛錢 - a jiao / ten cents
		三塊兩毛 - three yuan and two jiao / three dollars and twenty cents
		五毛黨 - wumao
		5. coarse; raw; semifinished
		毛茶 - raw tea
		6. (of an amount) gross
		Antonyms: 淨
		毛利 - gross profit
		毛重 - gross weight
		7. rough; sketchy
		毛估 - to make a rough estimate
		8. small; little
		毛毛雨 - drizzle
		毛孩子zi - mere child
		9. careless; unthinking
		毛手毛腳 - to be careless
		10. panicked; scared; nervous
		把我嚇毛了 - to have scared me
		11. angry; furious
		12. (of currency) depreciated
		13. (mainland, colloquial or slang) no; nothing; damn all; my ass
		有毛用 - be not effective or useful, to be of damn-all use
		管毛用 - be not effective or useful, to be of damn-all use
		14. (Cantonese, colloquial, always with the classifier) nothing; damn all; jack shit; bugger all
		Synonyms: 春
		你識條毛咩？ - Do you know anything at all?
		15. (ACG) hair (in unnatural colours)
		白毛 - the character with white-coloured hair
		假毛 - wig
		毛澤-東 - Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), founder of the People's Republic of China
		16. usage. In Standard Chinese, for hair on the human head, use 頭髮 instead.

眉 ⇨ + 目

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
		1.
目	mù	1. (literary or Min) eye
		耳目 (ěrmù) - ears and eyes; spies
		目睭 (ba̍k-chiu) - eye, MN
		2. item; entry
		賬目 (zhàngmù) - entry
		3. list; catalogue; table of contents
		目錄 (mùlù) - catalogue
		4. target; goal
		目標 (mùbiāo) - target
		目的dì (mùdì) - target, goal
		5. (taxonomy) order
		6. (classical) to call; to address (of people's names and titles)
		Synonyms: 稱呼