The Chinese word for towel is
毛巾

máo jīn

Chinese Definition

towel
1. 毛巾；手巾
Components
毛
1. hair (of humans or animals); fur; feather
雞毛 - chicken feather
2. (dialectal) hair on the head
3. mildew; mold
4. (colloquial) jiao; one tenth of a yuan or dollar; ten cents; dime
一毛錢 - a jiao / ten cents
三塊兩毛 - three yuan and two jiao / three dollars and twenty cents
五毛黨 - wumao
5. coarse; raw; semifinished
毛茶 - raw tea
6. (of an amount) gross
(ant, zh, 淨)
毛利 - gross profit
毛重 - gross weight
7. rough; sketchy
毛估 - to make a rough estimate
8. small; little
毛毛雨 - drizzle
毛孩子zi - mere child
9. careless; unthinking
毛手毛腳 - to be careless
10. panicked; scared; nervous
把我嚇毛了 - to have scared me
11. angry; furious
12. (of currency) depreciated
13. (mainland, colloquial or slang) no; nothing; damn all; my ass
有毛用 - be not effective or useful, to be of damn-all use
管毛用 - be not effective or useful, to be of damn-all use
14. (Cantonese, colloquial, always with the classifier) nothing; damn all; jack shit; bugger all
Synonyms: 春
你識條毛咩？ - Do you know anything at all?
15. (ACG) hair (in unnatural colours)
白毛 - the character with white-coloured hair
假毛 - wig
毛澤-東 - Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), founder of the People's Republic of China
16. usage. In Standard Chinese, for hair on the human head, use 頭髮 instead.
巾
1. a square item of cloth; towel; kerchief
2. (historical) piece of clothing worn on the head in China