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HSK
father and mother; parents
HSK 3
mother / also pr. [mu3 qin5] / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
letter (of the alphabet) / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
hen / don't know (humorous slang mimicking Cantonese 唔知, Jyutping: m4 zi1)
HSK 6
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mother / elderly female relative / origin / source / (of animals) female
HSK 6
wife's mother, mother-in-law
HSK 7-9
wife's mother; mother-in-law
father's mother; paternal grandmother
HSK 6
Church of Our Lady / Frauenkirche
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
husband and wife
step-parents
jellyfish / medusa
Mary (mother of Jesus)
term of respect for a teacher's wife
mother and child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest
HSK 6
aircraft carrier (CL:) / (fig.) juggernaut
parent company
paternal grandparents
parents
breastfeeding
Failure is the mother of success.
breastfeeding
mother and daughter / mother-daughter
HSK 6
motherwort (Leonurus heterophyllus or L. cardiaca)
mica
lowercase (letters)
stepmother
HSK 7-9
maternal love
mother's mother / maternal grandmother
capital letters / uppercase letters
maternal / matriarchal
phonetic letters
jellyfish / medusa
wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife
Cyrillic alphabet / Cyrillic letters
acronym
(of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers / half (brother or sister)
Latin alphabet
a good wife and loving mother
warm, caring mother
female dog / bitch
like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor
Oedipus complex
a son won't abandon his mother for being ugly, just as a dog won't abandon its owner for being poor (proverb)
diphthong
mother (as a social role)
father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother
master tape
mother's sister / maternal aunt
surrogate mother
alphabetical order
motif (loanword) / main idea / theme
another name for Xi Wangmu 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
mother-of-pearl (used in ornamentation and in TCM)
(Tw) Mount Everest
alphabet
breastfeeding
wet nurse
machine tool / mother ship
natural mother / birth mother
generating line / generatrix (in geometry) / bus (in electronics) / bus bar
native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language
(math.) common denominator
(biology) oocyte; ovocyte
one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)
tigress / (fig.) fierce woman / vixen
yeast; saccharomycete
yeast; saccharomycete (abbr. for 酵母菌)
mother and son / interest and capital / combination of a large object and a smaller one of the same type
generating function (math.)
nut (female component of nut and bolt)
(math.) denominator of a fraction
word that contains one or more letters of an alphabet (e.g. HSK, PK, WTO, PO, PM2.5, γ射線|γ射线)
aunt / wife of father's younger brother
(polite) my mother
Mother's Day
Greek alphabet
matricide / to commit matricide
mother's womb
adoptive mother
the people one depends upon for one's livelihood / one's bread and butter
(dialect) hen
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers / half (brother or sister)
(zoology) Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis)
emerald
(loanword) com (as in "dot-com")
(slang) mother; mom (from Japanese 母上 "haha-ue")
Roman letters / Roman alphabet
female brothel keeper / a bawd
wife of father's elder brother (old)
deceased mother
lifeline river; river regarded as the cradle of a civilization
initial letters
father's father's brother's wife / great aunt
freshwater jellyfish (Craspedacusta)
father's sister / paternal aunt
never been in a romantic relationship
my late paternal grandmother
wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother

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