| 矛 | [ maó ] spear, lance, pike |
| 矛斑蝗鶯 | [ maó bān huáng yīng ] (bird species of China) lanceolated warbler (Locustella lanceolata) |
| 矛柄 | [ maó bǐng ] shaft |
| 矛盾 | [ maó dùn ] contradiction, CL:個|个[ge4], conflicting views, contradictory |
| 矛紋草鶥 | [ maó wén caǒ meí ] (bird species of China) Chinese babax (Babax lanceolatus) |
| 矛隼 | [ maó sǔn ] (bird species of China) gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) |
| 矛頭 | [ maó toú ] spearhead, barb, an attack or criticism |
| 矛頭指向 | [ maó toú zhǐ xiàng ] to target sb or sth (for attack, criticism etc) |
| ⇒ 丈八蛇矛 | [ zhàng bā shé maó ] ancient spear-like weapon 18 Chinese feet 尺[chi3] in length, with a wavy spearhead like a snake's body |
| ⇒ 人民內部矛盾 | [ rén mín neì bù maó dùn ] internal contradiction among the people (pretext for a purge) |
| ⇒ 以子之矛，攻子之盾 | [ yǐ zǐ zhī maó gōng zǐ zhī dùn ] lit. use sb's spear to attack his shield (idiom, derived from Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子); turning a weapon against its owner, fig. to attack an opponent using his own devices, hoist with his own petard |
| ⇒ 內部矛盾 | [ neì bù maó dùn ] internal contradiction |
| ⇒ 敵我矛盾 | [ dí wǒ maó dùn ] contradictions between ourselves and the enemy, Either you are for us or against us. |
| ⇒ 正確處理人民內部矛盾 | [ zhèng què chǔ lǐ rén mín neì bù maó dùn ] On the correct handling of internal contradictions among the people, Mao Zedong's tract of 1957 |
| ⇒ 自相矛盾 | [ zì xiāng maó dùn ] to contradict oneself, self-contradictory, inconsistent |
| ⇒ 蛇矛 | [ shé maó ] ancient spear-like weapon with a wavy spearhead like a snake's body |
| ⇒ 長矛 | [ cháng maó ] pike, lance, CL:把[ba3],柄[bing3] |
| ⇒ 陸港矛盾 | [ lù gǎng maó dùn ] tensions between mainland China and Hong Kong (since 1997) |
| ⇒ 鬧矛盾 | [ naò maó dùn ] to be at loggerheads, to have a falling out |
