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HSK
father and mother; parents
HSK 3
letter (of the alphabet) / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
mother / also pr. [mu3 qin5] / CL: 個|个
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
wife's mother; mother-in-law
hen / don't know (humorous slang mimicking Cantonese 唔知, Jyutping: m4 zi1)
HSK 6
Mother's Day
father's mother; paternal grandmother
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
motherland; home country
mother and child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest
HSK 6
parent company
paternal grandparents
mother and daughter / mother-daughter
HSK 6
motherwort (Leonurus heterophyllus or L. cardiaca)
(Tw) Mount Everest
stepmother
HSK 7-9
surrogate mother
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers / half (brother or sister)
one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)
mother's mother / maternal grandmother
maternal / matriarchal
phonetic letters
jellyfish / medusa
wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife
Latin alphabet
warm, caring mother
female dog / bitch
like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor
diphthong
mother (as a social role)
father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother
mother's sister / maternal aunt
another name for Xi Wangmu 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
mother-of-pearl (used in ornamentation and in TCM)
alphabet
breastfeeding
wet nurse
alphabetical order
hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet / Korean letters
Cyrillic alphabet / Cyrillic letters
hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet; Korean letters
(of Chinese pronunciation) a vowel followed by a nasal consonant
Notre-Dame Cathedral (Paris, France)
capital letters / uppercase letters
lifeline river; river regarded as the cradle of a civilization
natural mother / birth mother
compound final
(math.) common denominator
a good wife and loving mother
(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
word that contains one or more letters of an alphabet (e.g. HSK, PK, WTO, PO, PM2.5, γ射線|γ射线)
aircraft carrier (CL:) / (fig.) juggernaut
Failure is the mother of success.
(biology) mother cell; matricyte
Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB), or Mother of All Bombs, a powerful American bomb
rune
nut (female component of nut and bolt)
diphthong / compound vowel
(math.) denominator of a fraction
aunt / wife of father's younger brother
(polite) my mother
husband and wife
maternal love
mother's womb
the people one depends upon for one's livelihood / one's bread and butter
machine tool / mother ship
(zoology) Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis)
(loanword) com (as in "dot-com")
(slang) mother; mom (from Japanese 母上 "haha-ue")
wife of father's elder brother (old)
deceased mother
matricide / to commit matricide
parent material (e.g. the eroded rock making up sediment)
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers
Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Christian festival on 15th August)
beetle larva
initial letters
father's father's brother's wife / great aunt
freshwater jellyfish (Craspedacusta)
foster mother / adoptive mother
father's sister / paternal aunt
stepmother
my late paternal grandmother
wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother
simple finals
aircraft carrier (abbr. for 航空母艦|航空母舰)
adoptive mother
queen bee
jellyfish / medusa
(Tw) serving chopsticks and serving spoons used in communal dining to promote hygiene
(of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers / half (brother or sister)
adoptive parents

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