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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *妈* | 妈* | *妈
ma / mom / mother
HSK 1
mama / mommy / mother / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *奶* | 奶* | *奶
mother / variant of
HSK 1
mother / also pr. [mu3 qin5] / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
father and mother; parents
HSK 3
elderly lady (respectful) / esteemed mother / CL:
HSK 3
maternal aunt / step-mother / childcare worker / nursemaid / woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child) / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
mother and daughter / mother-daughter
HSK 6
mother and child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest
HSK 6
father's mother / paternal grandmother
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *母* | 母* | *母
mother / elderly female relative / origin / source / (of animals) female
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *娘* | 娘* | *娘
mother / young lady / (coll.) effeminate
HSK 7-9
earth / mother earth
HSK 7-9
mother's brother / maternal uncle (informal) / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
(coll.) mother's father / maternal grandfather
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
(coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother
HSK 7-9
(coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother
HSK 7-9
wife's mother, mother-in-law
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姨* | 姨* | *姨
mother's sister / aunt
HSK 7-9
(coll.) mother's sister / maternal aunt
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *婆* | 婆* | *婆
(bound form) grandmother / (bound form) matron / (bound form) mother-in-law / (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship)
mother-in-law and daughter-in-law
husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姑* | 姑* | *姑
paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary)
husband of mother's sister / uncle
granny / mother-in-law
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *恃* | 恃* | *恃
(bound form) to rely on / (literary) one's mother
to help a mother give birth
wife's mother; mother-in-law
grandma (paternal) (Tw) / (dialect) mother / nurse / amah / (Manchu) father
native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language
expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea
mother; mom
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *娭* | 娭* | *娭
see 娭姐, father's mother / granny (dialect) / respectful form of address for older lady
foster mother / adoptive mother
machine tool / mother ship
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
mother's sister / maternal aunt
six close relatives, namely: father , mother , older brothers , younger brothers , wife , male children / one's kin
aunt (mother's eldest sister) / (respectful term of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother)
warm, caring mother
natural mother / birth mother
mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister
queen / empress / imperial concubine / Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West / mother / aunt
half-sibling relationship / brothers with different mother / step-
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers / half (brother or sister)
mother and father / parents
a good wife and loving mother
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *妗* | 妗* | *妗
wife of mother's brother
(of an expectant mother) to be in labor
woman hired to take care of a newborn child and its mother in the month after childbirth
son orphaned of his mother
mother (as a social role)
(zoology, medicine) mother's body / (chemistry etc) parent / matrix / (statistics) population / parent population
(honorific) your mother
wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *珧* | 珧* | *珧
mother-of-pearl
another name for 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
(of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers / half (brother or sister)
mother's brother / maternal uncle
wife's mother; mother-in-law
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers
(polite) my mother
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *妣* | 妣* | *妣
deceased mother
father's mother's sister (coll.) / great aunt
my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife
(informal) mother's brother's wife / maternal uncle's wife
mother's mother's sister / great-aunt
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *獍* | 獍* | *獍
a mythical animal that eats its mother
expecting mother
mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister
(polite) my mother
(literary) mother-in-law / wife's mother
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *毑* | 毑* | *毑
mother
(literary) my late mother
to rely on / father and mother (classical)
one's own mother / biological mother
mother's womb
(literary) my late mother
parents (father and mother)
supreme goodness / (respectful term for sb's mother)
Maria (name) / Mary, mother of Jesus Christ
father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother
Gaea, the Earth Goddess and mother of the Titans
Tamir (mother of Perez and Zerah)
mother and son / interest and capital / combination of a large object and a smaller one of the same type
foster mother
Lao Ai (-238 BC), man of Qin famous for his giant penis / in fiction, bogus eunuch and the consort of king Ying Zheng's mother lady Zhao
deceased mother
mother (Mongolian)
mother's mother / maternal grandmother
mother ship
another name for Xi Wangmu 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
strict and compassionate / strict as a father and tender as a mother
(old) wife / mother
Xi Wangmu, Queen Mother of the West, keeper of the peaches of immortality / popularly known as 王母娘娘
(honorific) your mother
(old) dowager / old lady (title for the mother of a noble or an official)

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