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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
hen / don't know (humorous slang mimicking Cantonese 唔知, Jyutping: m4 zi1)
HSK 6
father's mother; paternal grandmother
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *母* | 母* | *母
mother / elderly female relative / origin / source / (of animals) female
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
Xi Wangmu, Queen Mother of the West, keeper of the peaches of immortality / popularly known as 王母娘娘
the bulb of the fritillary (Fritillaria thunbergii)
generating line / generatrix (in geometry) / bus (in electronics) / bus bar
the Virgin Mary
goddess
denominator of a fraction
maternal love
wife's mother; mother-in-law
wet nurse
native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language
mica
aircraft carrier (abbr. for 航空母艦|航空母舰)
maternal / matriarchal
foster mother / adoptive mother
breast milk
machine tool / mother ship
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")
nut (female component of nut and bolt)
jellyfish / medusa
warm, caring mother
natural mother / birth 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
godmother
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
motherwort (Leonurus heterophyllus)
aunt / wife of father's younger brother
father's wife (term used by the children of a concubine to address their father's primary wife)
mother (as a social role)
wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife
another name for 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
(literary) paternal grandmother
(of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers / half (brother or sister)
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)
snap fastener
female brothel keeper / a bawd
like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor
wife of father's younger brother / aunt
(military) cluster bomb / shrapnel
yeast
mother's womb
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
mother and son / interest and capital / combination of a large object and a smaller one of the same type
variant of 保姆
Oedipus complex
foster mother
deceased mother
mother's mother / maternal grandmother
mother ship
aircraft carrier (CL:) / (coll.) (metaphor for sth huge, whale-like)
another name for Xi Wangmu 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
Greek alphabet
parent company
mother-of-pearl (used in ornamentation and in TCM)
Cyrillic alphabet / Cyrillic letters
Second book of Samuel
variant of 保姆
(idiom) parents' orders and matchmaker's services (in establishing an arranged marriage)
capital letters / uppercase letters
Mary (mother of Jesus)
lowercase (letters)
vowel harmony (in phonetics)
parents
alphabetical order
compound final
acronym
(Tw) surrogacy / surrogate pregnancy / surrogate mother
Latin alphabet
phonetic letters
mother-of-pearl
godmother / surrogate mother
First book of Samuel
motif (loanword) / main idea / theme
Anemarrhena asphodeloides / rhyzome of Anemarrhena (used in TCM)

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