Chinese Red.

The answer

MAO

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MAO answer page.

Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 1997; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• CHOUENLAI (2 uses in xd)
• MAOTSETUNG (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for MAO

Every other clue in this collection answered by MAO, most used first.

• Chinese chairman - used 121 times, most recently in 2026
• Long March leader - used 70 times, most recently in 2023
• -- Zedong - used 53 times, most recently in 2025
• Chairman of China - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• "Little Red Book" author - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Chinese name. - used 24 times, most recently in 1971
• ___ Tse-tung - used 23 times, most recently in 2021
• Cultural Revolution leader - used 22 times, most recently in 2022
• Great Leap Forward leader - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Chinese leader - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
• China's ___ Zedong - used 18 times, most recently in 2021
• Kind of jacket - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• "Little Red Book" writer - used 17 times, most recently in 2021
• Warhol subject - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Chairman __ - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
• China's Chairman ___ - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
• Longtime Chinese chairman - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
• "Nixon in China" role - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Chairman of note - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Red Guard leader - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• Autumn Harvest Uprising leader - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Former Chinese chairman - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Leader of the Long March - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• "Little Red Book" chairman - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• Longtime Chinese leader - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• 1972 host to Nixon - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Late Chinese leader - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
• Red head, once? - used 9 times, most recently in 2010
• Chairman with a Little Red Book - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Noted Warhol subject - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Peking name - used 8 times, most recently in 1977
• Red Guard idol - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• China chairman - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Former Chinese leader - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Former Red head - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
• Great Leap Forward proponent - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• ___ jacket - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• __ jacket (Chinese attire) - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• Onetime Chinese chairman - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Andy Warhol portrait subject - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Chiang adversary - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Chinese leader Zedong - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Chinese revolutionary - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• "Nixon in China" character - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
• Onetime Chinese leader - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Red leader - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Be in the red - OWE, used 135 times
• Chinese tea - CHA, used 100 times
• Chinese "way" - TAO, used 94 times
• "Roses -- red" - ARE, used 86 times
• General on Chinese menus - TSO, used 77 times
• Chinese dynasty - HAN, used 70 times

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