Si Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Water (shuǐ)
Mao
Kangxi stroke count: 9
Page 616, Entry 16
According to the Extensive Rhymes (Guangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced mao (rising tone). The name of a body of water. Located in Huating County, Wu, there are the Round Mao, the Great Mao, and the Long Mao, totaling three Maos. Also written in a variant form (mao).
The Records of Spring Islet (Chunzhu Jiwen) records that Lu Luwang, in a poem about affairs in Wu, wrote: The fish traps stir in the cool waves of the three Maos. A note states that the people of Jiangzuo call water that is stagnant and not rushing a mao.
Also, according to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced liu (rising tone). The appearance of water.