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HSK
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 child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest
HSK 6
mother and daughter / mother-daughter
HSK 6
father's mother; paternal grandmother
HSK 6
hen / don't know (humorous slang mimicking Cantonese 唔知, Jyutping: m4 zi1)
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *母* | 母* | *母
mother / elderly female relative / origin / source / (of animals) female
HSK 6
stepmother
HSK 7-9
wife's mother, mother-in-law
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
(Tw) (slang) don't; must not; won't do (from Taiwanese 毋通, Tai-lo pr. [m̄-thang], similar to Mandarin 不要 or 不行)
wife of father's younger brother / aunt
Second book of Samuel
female husky (dog)
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers
(military) cluster bomb / shrapnel
wet nurse
maternal / matriarchal
diphthong / compound vowel
the bulb of the fritillary (Fritillaria thunbergii)
in place of sb's parents / in loco parentis (law)
freshwater jellyfish (Craspedacusta)
alphabetical order
simple finals
maternal aunt
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")
(Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant)
wet nurse
Notre-Dame Cathedral (Paris, France)
another name for 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
(literary) paternal grandmother
foster mother / adoptive mother
jellyfish / medusa
Mother's Day
the Virgin Mary
goddess
female dog / bitch
queen bee
hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet / Korean letters
(Tw) Mount Everest
aircraft carrier (CL:) / (fig.) juggernaut
warm, caring mother
maternal love
(idiom) parents' orders and matchmaker's services (in establishing an arranged marriage)
alphabet
lowercase (letters)
adoptive mother
husband and wife
witch / shrew / vixen
tigress / (fig.) fierce woman / vixen
another name for Xi Wangmu 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
a good wife and loving mother
the people one depends upon for one's livelihood / one's bread and butter
Latin alphabet
the death of one's mother
Greek alphabet
Failure is the mother of success.
phonetic letters
the initial consonant of a Chinese syllable / the phonetic component of a phono-semantic compound character (e.g. the component in )
(biology) oocyte; ovocyte
surrogate mother
breast milk
matrilineality
emerald
deceased mother
(old) birthday
mother-of-pearl
(Tw) serving chopsticks and serving spoons used in communal dining to promote hygiene
(zoology, medicine) mother's body / (chemistry etc) parent / matrix / (statistics) population / parent population
wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother
yeast; saccharomycete (abbr. for 酵母菌)
wife of father's elder brother (old)
Cyrillic alphabet / Cyrillic letters
wife's mother; mother-in-law
mica
term of respect for a teacher's wife
stepmother
to have lost both one's parents
great-great-grandmother
vowel
compound final
master tape
(polite) my mother
female brothel keeper / a bawd
aunt / wife of father's younger brother
Oedipus complex
(math.) common denominator
mother's kinfolk
father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother
yeast; saccharomycete
natural mother / birth mother
father's wife (term used by the children of a concubine to address their father's primary wife)
nut (female component of nut and bolt)
father's sister / paternal aunt
variant of 保姆
machine tool / mother ship
nut (female component of nut and bolt)
beetle larva

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