surname Mao

reeds; rushes

(dialect) latrine

Maotai town in Renhuai county, Guizhou

maotai liquor 茅臺酒|茅台酒[mao2 tai2 jiu3]

thatched cottage

Mt Mao, Daoist mountain southeast of Jurong county 句容[Ju4 rong2], Jiangsu Province

thatched cottage

toilet (rural euphemism); thatched hut or house

thatched shed

Mao Dun (1896-1981), Chinese novelist

variant of 毛竹[mao2 zhu2]

see 茅箭區|茅箭区[Mao2 jian4 Qu1]

cottage; hut

see 白茅[bai2 mao2]

Mao Yisheng (1896-1989), Chinese structural engineer and social activist

maotai (a strong spirit produced in Guizhou); CL:杯[bei1],瓶[ping2]

thatched roof

Maojian, a district of Shiyan City 十堰市[Shi2 yan4 Shi4], Hubei

murky darkness suddenly opens (idiom); a sudden flash of insight and all is clear

Mauritania (Tw)

(slang) (fig.) to court death (derived from 找死[zhao3 si3] via its near homophone 照屎[zhao4 shi3])

Mao Dun Literature Prize, PRC prize for novel writing, awarded since 1982