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mama / mommy / mother / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
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  *妈* | 妈* | *妈
ma / mom / mother
HSK 1
father and mother; parents
HSK 3
mother / also pr. [mu3 qin5] / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
elderly lady (respectful) / esteemed mother / CL:
HSK 3
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  *母* | 母* | *母
mother / elderly female relative / origin / source / (of animals) female
HSK 6
wife's mother, mother-in-law
HSK 7-9
maternal aunt / step-mother / childcare worker / nursemaid / woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child) / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
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  *奶* | 奶* | *奶
mother / variant of
HSK 1
wife's mother; mother-in-law
one's own mother / biological mother
father's mother; paternal grandmother
HSK 6
earth / mother earth
HSK 7-9
(coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother
HSK 7-9
wife of father's elder brother / aunt / (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
Mary (mother of Jesus)
mother and child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest
HSK 6
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  *姨* | 姨* | *姨
mother's sister / aunt
HSK 7-9
Failure is the mother of success.
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  *娘* | 娘* | *娘
mother / young lady / (coll.) effeminate
HSK 7-9
aunt (mother's eldest sister) / (respectful term of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother)
mother and daughter / mother-daughter
HSK 6
(coll.) mother's sister / maternal aunt
queen / empress / imperial concubine / Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West / mother / aunt
mother's mother / maternal grandmother
(coll.) mother's father / maternal grandfather
HSK 7-9
wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife
(of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers / half (brother or sister)
a good wife and loving mother
mother's youngest sister / wife's younger sister; sister-in-law
warm, caring mother
(honorific) your mother
a son won't abandon his mother for being ugly, just as a dog won't abandon its owner for being poor (proverb)
mother (as a social role)
father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother
mother's sister / maternal aunt
(coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother
HSK 7-9
surrogate mother
another name for Xi Wangmu 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
mother-of-pearl (used in ornamentation and in TCM)
mother-in-law and daughter-in-law
machine tool / mother ship
(coll.) father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother / respectful form of address for an old woman
my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife
(old) three generations (father, self and sons) / three clans (your own, your mother's, your wife's)
natural mother / birth mother
native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language
grandma (paternal) (Tw) / (dialect) mother / nurse / amah / (Manchu) father
mother and father / parents
mother and son / interest and capital / combination of a large object and a smaller one of the same type
strict and compassionate / strict as a father and tender as a mother
(dialect) mom; mother
husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma
woman hired to take care of a newborn child and its mother in the month after childbirth
mother's eldest sister (older than one's mother) / (coll.) (euphemism) Aunt Flo (i.e. menstrual period)
(polite) my mother
to rely on / father and mother (classical)
to formally accept sb as (one's adoptive mother, one's master etc)
Mother's Day
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
mother's womb
adoptive mother
expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers / half (brother or sister)
a mom (mother of a young child)
mother; mom
mother's brother / maternal uncle (informal) / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
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  *婆* | 婆* | *婆
(bound form) grandmother / (bound form) matron / (bound form) mother-in-law / (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship)
(slang) mother; mom (from Japanese 母上 "haha-ue")
son orphaned of his mother
auntie, third eldest of sisters in mother's family
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
deceased mother
to serve as a surrogate mother / surrogacy
auntie, eldest of sisters in mother's family
adoptive mother
hemolytic disease of newborn (breakdown of red blood cells due to alloimmune reaction between mother and fetus)
lit. whoever provides milk is your mother (idiom) / fig. to follow whoever is feeding you / to put one's loyalties where one's interests lie
(old) dowager / old lady (title for the mother of a noble or an official)
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  *珧* | 珧* | *珧
mother-of-pearl
Your esteemed mother (honorific)
husband's mother
mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister
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  *恃* | 恃* | *恃
(bound form) to rely on / (literary) one's mother
(biology) mother cell; matricyte
(medicine) to unblock breastmilk flow (of a nursing mother with clogged milk ducts)
(literary) my late mother
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  *姑* | 姑* | *姑
paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary)
to lose sb one relies upon / to lose one's mother
expecting mother
husband of mother's sister / uncle
father's mother / granny (dialect) / respectful form of address for older lady
(dialect) husband's mother
parents (father and mother)
snake plant aka mother-in-law's tongue (Dracaena trifasciata)
Necessity is the mother of invention (European proverb).
lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom) / fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor / what goes around comes around
(dialect) mother-in-law / (house)wife
auntie, youngest of sisters in mother's family
wife's mother; mother-in-law

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