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mother / also pr. [mu3 qin5] / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
father and mother; parents
HSK 3
letter (of the alphabet) / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
mother and daughter / mother-daughter
HSK 6
mother and child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest
HSK 6
father's mother; paternal grandmother
HSK 6
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mother / elderly female relative / origin / source / (of animals) female
HSK 6
hen / don't know (humorous slang mimicking Cantonese 唔知, Jyutping: m4 zi1)
HSK 6
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
wife's mother, mother-in-law
HSK 7-9
stepmother
HSK 7-9
muscovite; white mica
(biology) oocyte; ovocyte
mother-to-infant transmission
mother and son / interest and capital / combination of a large object and a smaller one of the same type
nut (female component of nut and bolt)
Xi Wangmu, Queen Mother of the West, keeper of the peaches of immortality / popularly known as 王母娘娘
great-great-grandmother
never been in a romantic relationship
initial letters
simple finals
the bulb of the fritillary (Fritillaria thunbergii)
godmother
Second book of Samuel
the Virgin Mary
goddess
breastfeeding
the death of one's mother
(Internet slang) sanctimonious bitch
beetle larva
Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB), or Mother of All Bombs, a powerful American bomb
maternal love
(math.) common denominator
lowercase (letters)
native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language
machine tool / mother ship
mica
aircraft carrier (abbr. for 航空母艦|航空母舰)
maternal / matriarchal
foster mother / adoptive mother
breast milk
the final of a Chinese syllable (the component of a syllable remaining after removal of the initial consonant, if any, and the tone, e.g. the final of "niáng" is "iang")
step-parents
nut (female component of nut and bolt)
jellyfish / medusa
warm, caring mother
natural mother / birth mother
foster mother
yeast; saccharomycete (abbr. for 酵母菌)
wet nurse
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers / half (brother or sister)
rune
motherwort (Leonurus heterophyllus or L. cardiaca)
a good wife and loving mother
wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother
the initial consonant of a Chinese syllable / the phonetic component of a phono-semantic compound character (e.g. the component in )
term of respect for a teacher's wife
snap fastener
motherwort (Leonurus heterophyllus)
aunt / wife of father's younger brother
(math.) denominator of a fraction
father's wife (term used by the children of a concubine to address their father's primary wife)
mother (as a social role)
zymosterol
wet nurse
wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife
another name for 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
(literary) paternal grandmother
wife's mother; mother-in-law
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers
(polite) my mother
parent material (e.g. the eroded rock making up sediment)
the people one depends upon for one's livelihood / one's bread and butter
female brothel keeper / a bawd
like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor
wife of father's younger brother / aunt
diphthong / compound vowel
tigress / (fig.) fierce woman / vixen
(military) cluster bomb / shrapnel
(of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers / half (brother or sister)
yeast
mother's womb
Roman letters / Roman alphabet
to have lost both one's parents
witch / shrew / vixen
(science fiction) home planet / (astronomy) parent star
home port (of a ship or fleet)
paternal grandparents
father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother
female dog / bitch
master tape
variant of 保姆
Oedipus complex
deceased mother
mother's mother / maternal grandmother
mother ship
aircraft carrier (CL:) / (fig.) juggernaut
another name for Xi Wangmu 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
Greek alphabet
parent company

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