CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

毛发

máofà

hair

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

hair

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 毛发 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 毛发 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我有一天醒来发现上帝将毛发植在了我的面颊上，我给它剃了。我次日醒来又发现上帝在我的脸上种了毛发，我又给它剃了。当我第三天发现上帝再一次把毛发植在我脸上时，我绝定接受上帝的旨意。我就这样有了胡子。wǒ yǒu yī tiān xǐng lái fā xiàn shàng dì jiāng máo fà zhí zài le wǒ de miàn jiá shàng， wǒ gěi tā tì le。 wǒ cì rì xǐng lái yòu fā xiàn shàng dì zài wǒ de liǎn shàng zhǒng le máo fà， wǒ yòu gěi tā tì le。 dāng wǒ dì sān tiān fā xiàn shàng dì zài yí cì bǎ máo fà zhí zài wǒ liǎn shàng shí， wǒ jué dìng jiē shòu shàng dì de zhǐ yì。 wǒ jiù zhè yàng yǒu le hú zi。

One day, I woke up to find that God had put hair on my face. I shaved it off. The next day, I found that God had put it back on my face, so I shaved it off again. On the third day, when I found that God had put hair back on my face again, I decided to let God have his way. That's why I have a beard.

猫科动物如老虎和狮子都是哺乳类，拥有毛发和恒温身体。māo kē dòng wù rú lǎo hǔ hé shī zi dōu shì bǔ rǔ lèi， yōng yǒu máo fà hé héng wēn shēn tǐ。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 毛发.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 毛发.

Directly before

将毛发1
了毛发1
把毛发1
拥有毛发1

Directly after

毛发植在2
毛发和1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 毛发

What does 毛发 mean in Chinese?

毛发 (máofà) means hair.

How do you pronounce 毛发?

毛发 is pronounced máofà.

Is 毛发 an HSK word?

毛发 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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