貌
(bound form) appearance; looks; outward form
14 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,661 U+8C8C
How 貌 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A beast's 豸 appearance 皃; 皃 also provides the pronunciation
components: 豸 皃
How to remember it
mien · Heisig RSH #1903
leopard + dove + human legs
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 貌 as their sound component
These characters all use 貌 (mào) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 貌 sound component | mào | countenance, appearance |
| 邈 | miǎo | distant, remote; profound |
Words containing 貌
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人不可貌相，海水不可斗量 | rén bù kě mào xiàng , hǎi shuǐ bù kě dǒu liáng | you can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot … |
| 人不可貌相 | rén bù kě mào xiàng | you can't judge a person by appearance (idiom); you can't judge a book by its cover; often… |
| 外貌主义 | wài mào zhǔ yì | lookism |
| 黄土地貌 | huáng tǔ dì mào | loess landform |
| 貌美如花 | mào měi rú huā | (of a woman) lovely as a flower (idiom); beautiful |
| 貌合心离 | mào hé xīn lí | see 貌合神離|貌合神离[mao4 he2 shen2 li2] |
| 貌合神离 | mào hé shén lí | the appearance of unity, but divided at heart (idiom); seeming harmony belies underlying d… |
| 以貌取人 | yǐ mào qǔ rén | to judge sb by appearances (idiom) |
| 花容月貌 | huā róng yuè mào | lit. countenance of a flower, face like the moon (idiom); fig. (of a woman) beautiful |
| 外貌协会 | wài mào xié huì | the "good-looks club": people who attach great importance to a person's appearance (pun on… |
| 有礼貌 | yǒu lǐ mào | courteous; polite |
| 才貌双全 | cái mào shuāng quán | talented and good-looking (idiom) |
| 其貌不扬 | qí mào bù yáng | (idiom) nothing special to look at; unprepossessing |
| 男才女貌 | nán cái nǚ mào | talented man and beautiful woman; ideal couple |
| 花貌蓬心 | huā mào péng xīn | florid outside appearance, unkempt interior (idiom) |
| 地貌 | dì mào | (geology) landform; geomorphology |
| 道貌岸然 | dào mào àn rán | sanctimonious; dignified |
| 体貌 | tǐ mào | appearance |
| 面貌 | miàn mào | face; features; appearance; look |
| 风貌 | fēng mào | style; manner; ethos |