毫 háo fine hair
怎么记住“毫”: ⿱亠口 tall + 毛 hair = fine hair. Grandma, tall enough to reach the top shelf, pulls down her sweater, brushes dust from her hair and finds the wool full of the cat's fine hair.
部件结构
毫 = ⿱亠口 tall + 毛 hair
- ⿱亠口 tall
- 毛 hair
Grandma, tall enough to reach the top shelf, pulls down her sweater, brushes dust from her hair and finds the wool full of the cat's fine hair.
用法
- A fine hair, hence a tiny amount / milli- prefix - 毫米 (háomǐ) millimeter, 毫升 (háoshēng) milliliter.
- Key function: emphatic negation 'not in the least' - 毫无 (háowú) / 毫不 (háobù): 毫无办法 (háowú bànfǎ) utterly no way, 毫不犹豫 (háobù yóuyù) without the slightest hesitation.
- 丝毫 (sīháo) = the tiniest bit, usually negated: 丝毫不差 not off in the slightest.
- 毫 conveys 'a hair's worth,' so 毫无 = 'not even a hair's worth of.'