帽 (mào): hat, cap
帽 (mào) is a Chinese character meaning “hat.” Classified as HSK Level 4 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 巾 (semantic) and 冒 (phonetic). It ranks #1734 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 帽 towel. Its radical form 巾 (cloth) appears in many related characters such as 师 (shī, teacher), 帮 (bāng, to help), 常 (cháng, always).
Definitions
- hat
- cap
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 帽
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 衣帽间 | yī mào jiān | cloakroom |
| 礼帽 | lǐ mào | hat that goes with formal dress |
| 贝雷帽 | bèi léi mào | (loanword) beret |
| 绿帽子 | lǜ mào zi | green hat (figuratively, a symbol of being a cuckold) |
| 安全帽 | ān quán mào | safety helmet |
| 浴帽 | yù mào | shower cap |
| 帽檐 | mào yán | brim (of a hat) |
| 草帽 | cǎo mào | straw hat |
| 螺帽 | luó mào | nut (female component of nut and bolt) |
| 便帽 | biàn mào | cap |
| 鸭舌帽 | yā shé mào | peaked cap |
| 笔帽 | bǐ mào | the cap of a pen, pencil, or writing brush |
| 高帽子 | gāo mào zi | tall conical paper hat worn as a public humiliation |
| 扣帽子 | kòu mào zi | to tag sb with unfair label |
| 乌纱帽 | wū shā mào | black gauze hat (worn by an imperial official as a sign of his position) |
帽 appears in 62 compound words: 13 as the first character, 61 as the last, and 26 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 帽 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
夏天出门要戴帽子，防止被太阳晒伤。
Xiàtiān chūmén yào dài màozi, fángzhǐ bèi tàiyáng shài shāng.
Wear a hat when going out in summer to prevent sunburn.
爱给人戴“红帽子” 绿何不照照镜子?
ài gěi rén dài hóng mào zǐ lǜ hé bù zhào zhào jìng zǐ ?
Love to wear a "red hat" Green, why not look in the mirror?
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quán 國 wéi yī guān mào tǔ dì gōng ! huā 壇 bái shā kēng bǎi nián yíng 燈 pái . . .
The nation's only official hat-wearing Land God! White Sand Pit in Huatan's "Century-Old Welcoming Lantern Parade" starts March 1 …
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. . . 傳 曖 mèi qíng ! tóng kuǎn qíng 侶 mào bèi jǐng bào 熱 戀 萬 zhèng mèi 網 紅
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guāng 復 jiù 災 tì nǚ tóng dài mào ! nuǎn xīn shì guān 長 chóng huí huā 蓮 mèi mèi 長 gāo le
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上海開唱遭取消抹黑 濱崎步曬維尼帽反擊
shàng hǎi 開 chàng zāo qǔ xiāo mā hēi 濱 崎 bù 曬 維 ní mào fǎn 擊
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保林娜有顶粉帽子。
Bǎolínnà yǒu dǐng fěn màozi.
Paulina has a pink cap.
那顶帽子很配汤姆。
Nà dǐng màozi hěn pèi Tāngmǔ.
That hat looks really good on Tom.
螺栓我找到了，螺帽在哪里？
Luóshuān wǒ zhǎodào le, luómào zài nǎlǐ?
I've got the bolts. Where are the nuts?
这种款式的帽子现在很流行。
Zhèzhǒng kuǎnshì de màozi xiànzài hěn liúxíng.
This style of hat is now in fashion.
Character Family
巾 Radical Family — Characters sharing the cloth radical
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