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HSK
father and mother; parents
HSK 3
letter (of the alphabet) / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
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mother / elderly female relative / origin / source / (of animals) female
HSK 6
wife's mother, mother-in-law
HSK 7-9
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
step-parents
term of respect for a teacher's wife
paternal grandparents
Failure is the mother of success.
mica
lowercase (letters)
stepmother
HSK 7-9
mother's mother / maternal grandmother
capital letters / uppercase letters
phonetic letters
jellyfish / medusa
wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife
Cyrillic alphabet / Cyrillic letters
Latin alphabet
a good wife and loving mother
warm, caring mother
like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor
mother (as a social role)
father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother
mother's sister / maternal aunt
mother-of-pearl (used in ornamentation and in TCM)
wet nurse
natural mother / birth mother
(math.) common denominator
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
nut (female component of nut and bolt)
(math.) denominator of a fraction
aunt / wife of father's younger brother
(polite) my mother
Greek alphabet
matricide / to commit matricide
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)
(loanword) com (as in "dot-com")
Roman letters / Roman alphabet
female brothel keeper / a bawd
wife of father's elder brother (old)
deceased mother
initial letters
father's father's brother's wife / great aunt
freshwater jellyfish (Craspedacusta)
father's sister / paternal aunt
my late paternal grandmother
wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother
aircraft carrier (abbr. for 航空母艦|航空母舰)
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")
maternal aunt
nut (female component of nut and bolt)
Necessity is the mother of invention (European proverb).
wife's mother; mother-in-law
thirty six initial consonants of Song phonetic theory
in place of sb's parents / in loco parentis (law)
wife of father's younger brother / aunt
the bulb of the fritillary (Fritillaria thunbergii)
godmother
great-grandmother (mother's grandmother)
wet nurse
foster mother / adoptive mother
stepmother
comb jellies (Ctenophora)
adoptive parents
the Virgin Mary
goddess
(Tw) surrogacy / surrogate pregnancy / surrogate mother
wife's aunt
father's wife (term used by the children of a concubine to address their father's primary wife)
hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet / Korean letters
mother-of-pearl
motherwort (Leonurus heterophyllus)
(of Chinese pronunciation) a vowel followed by a nasal consonant
another name for 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
(literary) paternal grandmother
godmother / surrogate mother
rune
(Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant)
muscovite; white mica
Nicodemus, prominent Jew of the time of Christ, mentioned in the Gospel of John
Xi Wangmu, Queen Mother of the West, keeper of the peaches of immortality / popularly known as 王母娘娘
sessile medusa / sea anemone
the initial consonant of a Chinese syllable / the phonetic component of a phono-semantic compound character (e.g. the component in )
lowest common denominator
biological parents / natural parents
Anemarrhena asphodeloides / rhyzome of Anemarrhena (used in TCM)
great-grandparents
compound final
simple finals
foster mother
(electronics) pin socket; female header
immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii)

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