Chinese mnemonics and annotator
Matthews
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母 mǔ mother
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#127
Chapter-10 HSK-A
5 strokes
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Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
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Mu has been regarded (1) as the picture of a woman embracing a child, or (2) as representing the breasts of a woman. It becomes 媽 ma or ma-ma to the child, as with us. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
母
mǔ
mother/elderly female relative/origin/source/(of animals) female
Phrases ending with the given character
先xiān
大dà
母mǔ
deceased paternal grandmother
叔shū
丈zhàng
母mǔ
wife's aunt
叔shū
祖zǔ
母mǔ
wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother
单單dān
韵韻yùn
母母mǔ
simple finals
外wài
祖zǔ
母mǔ
mother's mother/maternal grandmother
曾zēng
祖zǔ
母mǔ
father's father's mother/paternal great-grandmother
栉櫛jié
水水shuǐ
母母mǔ
comb jellies (Ctenophora)
珍zhēn
珠zhū
母mǔ
mother-of-pearl (used in ornamentation and in TCM)
生shēng
父fù
母mǔ
biological parents/natural parents
白白bái
云雲yún
母母mǔ
muscovite/white mica
祖zǔ
姑gū
母mǔ
father's father's sister/great aunt
祖zǔ
父fù
母mǔ
paternal grandparents
继繼jì
父父fù
母母mǔ
step-parents
义義yì
父父fù
母母mǔ
adoptive parents
螺螺luó
丝絲sī
母母mǔ
nut (female component of nut and bolt)
复複fù
韵韻yùn
母母mǔ
compound final
西xī
王wáng
母mǔ
Xi Wangmu, Queen Mother of the West, keeper of the peaches of immortality/popularly known as 王母娘娘
零零líng
声聲shēng
母母mǔ
absence of initial consonant/a Chinese syllable having no initial consonant (starting directly with the medial vowel)
首shǒu
字zì
母mǔ
initial letters
高gāo
祖zǔ
母mǔ
great-great-grandmother
鼻鼻bí
韵韻yùn
母母mǔ
(of Chinese pronunciation) a vowel followed by a nasal consonant