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HSK
father and mother; parents
HSK 3
letter (of the alphabet) / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
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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
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
paternal grandparents
stepmother
HSK 7-9
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers / half (brother or sister)
mother's mother / maternal grandmother
phonetic letters
jellyfish / medusa
wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife
Latin alphabet
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
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
capital letters / uppercase letters
natural mother / birth mother
compound final
(math.) common denominator
a good wife and loving mother
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
Failure is the mother of success.
Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB), or Mother of All Bombs, a powerful American bomb
rune
nut (female component of nut and bolt)
(math.) denominator of a fraction
aunt / wife of father's younger brother
(polite) my mother
the people one depends upon for one's livelihood / one's bread and butter
(zoology) Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis)
(loanword) com (as in "dot-com")
wife of father's elder brother (old)
deceased mother
matricide / to commit matricide
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers
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
adoptive parents
wife's mother; mother-in-law
thirty six initial consonants of Song phonetic theory
in place of sb's parents / in loco parentis (law)
the initial consonant of a Chinese syllable / the phonetic component of a phono-semantic compound character (e.g. the component in )
lowercase (letters)
maternal aunt
godmother
great-grandmother (mother's grandmother)
the bulb of the fritillary (Fritillaria thunbergii)
wet nurse
wife of father's younger brother / aunt
(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)
mother-of-pearl
motherwort (Leonurus heterophyllus)
muscovite; white mica
another name for 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
(literary) paternal grandmother
(Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant)
godmother / surrogate mother
term of respect for a teacher's wife
Greek alphabet
Roman letters / Roman alphabet
the Virgin Mary
goddess
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")
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
lowest common denominator
biological parents / natural parents
Anemarrhena asphodeloides / rhyzome of Anemarrhena (used in TCM)
(dialect) hen
great-grandparents
step-parents
nut (female component of nut and bolt)
foster mother
(electronics) pin socket; female header
Necessity is the mother of invention (European proverb).
mica

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