Taiwan Lounge

冒

mào

B1 Level 5 ★ Core word
Verb

冒 (mào) is a Chinese word meaning “to emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth)”. It sits at TOCFL Level 5 (CEFR B1) on Taiwan's official TBCL vocabulary standard, where it is marked a core word.

Definition

  1. surname Mao
  2. to emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth)
  3. to brave; to face
  4. (bound form) reckless
  5. to falsely adopt (sb's identity etc); to feign
  6. (literary) to cover

Stroke order

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Example

鍋子裡的湯一直冒著熱氣。

The soup in the pot keeps giving off steam.

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Vocabulary & levels: TBCL / NAER. Parts of speech: TOCFL 8000-word list (SC-TOP). Definitions: CC-CEDICT & CFDICT (CC BY-SA). Stroke data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License).