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| | father and mother; parents | HSK 3 |
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| | mother / also pr. [mu3 qin5] / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | elderly lady (respectful) / esteemed mother / CL: 位 | HSK 3 |
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| | mother / elderly female relative / origin / source / (of animals) female | HSK 6 |
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| | wife's mother, mother-in-law | HSK 7-9 |
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| | 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 |
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| | wife's mother; mother-in-law | |
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| | Mother's Day | |
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| | mother's eldest sister (older than one's mother) / (coll.) (euphemism) Aunt Flo (i.e. menstrual period) | |
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| | father's mother; paternal grandmother | HSK 6 |
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| | earth / mother earth | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother | HSK 7-9 |
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| | 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 |
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| | mother and child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest | HSK 6 |
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| | mother's sister / aunt | HSK 7-9 |
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| | mother / young lady / (coll.) effeminate | HSK 7-9 |
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| | aunt (mother's eldest sister) / (respectful term of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) | |
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| | mother and daughter / mother-daughter | HSK 6 |
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| | queen / empress / imperial concubine / Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West / mother / aunt | |
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| | surrogate mother | |
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| | (of siblings) having the same father but different mothers / half (brother or sister) | |
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| | mother's mother / maternal grandmother | |
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| | (coll.) mother's father / maternal grandfather | HSK 7-9 |
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| | wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife | |
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| | mother's youngest sister / wife's younger sister; sister-in-law | |
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| | warm, caring mother | |
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| | (honorific) your mother | |
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| | mother (as a social role) | |
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| | to help a mother give birth | |
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| | father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother | |
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| | mother's sister / maternal aunt | |
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| | (coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother | HSK 7-9 |
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| | another name for Xi Wangmu 西王母, Queen Mother of the West | |
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| | mother-of-pearl (used in ornamentation and in TCM) | |
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| | Tamir (mother of Perez and Zerah) | |
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| | mother-in-law and daughter-in-law | |
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| | (coll.) father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother / respectful form of address for an old woman | |
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| | my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife | |
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| | (old) three generations (father, self and sons) / three clans (your own, your mother's, your wife's) | |
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| | six close relatives, namely: father 父, mother 母, older brothers 兄, younger brothers 弟, wife 妻, male children 子 / one's kin | |
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| | natural mother / birth mother | |
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| | a good wife and loving mother | |
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| | mother and father / parents | |
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| | mother and son / interest and capital / combination of a large object and a smaller one of the same type | |
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| | Failure is the mother of success. | |
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| | (biology) mother cell; matricyte | |
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| | adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) | |
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| | husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma | |
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| | suzerain state / mother country (of a colony) | |
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| | woman hired to take care of a newborn child and its mother in the month after childbirth | |
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| | mother-to-be | |
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| | Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB), or Mother of All Bombs, a powerful American bomb | |
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| | (Tw) (vulgar) fuck you! (literally, "fuck your mother") | |
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| | (polite) my mother | |
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| | to rely on / father and mother (classical) | |
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| | mother's womb | |
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| | expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea | |
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| | machine tool / mother ship | |
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| | mother's brother / maternal uncle (informal) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (bound form) grandmother / (bound form) matron / (bound form) mother-in-law / (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship) | |
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| | (slang) mother; mom (from Japanese 母上 "haha-ue") | |
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| | son orphaned of his mother | |
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| | auntie, third eldest of sisters in mother's family | |
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| | adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) | |
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| | deceased mother | |
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| | to serve as a surrogate mother / surrogacy | |
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| | auntie, eldest of sisters in mother's family | |
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| | hemolytic disease of newborn (breakdown of red blood cells due to alloimmune reaction between mother and fetus) | |
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| | (of siblings) having the same father but different mothers | |
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| | lit. whoever provides milk is your mother (idiom) / fig. to follow whoever is feeding you / to put one's loyalties where one's interests lie | |
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| | (old) dowager / old lady (title for the mother of a noble or an official) | |
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| | foster mother / adoptive mother | |
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| | mother-of-pearl | |
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| | Your esteemed mother (honorific) | |
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| | husband's mother | |
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| | adoptive mother | |
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| | mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister | |
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| | (coll.) mother's sister / maternal aunt | |
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| | (bound form) to rely on / (literary) one's mother | |
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| | (medicine) to unblock breastmilk flow (of a nursing mother with clogged milk ducts) | |
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| | (literary) my late mother | |
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| | paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary) | |
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| | (of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers / half (brother or sister) | |
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| | to lose sb one relies upon / to lose one's mother | |
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| | husband of mother's sister / uncle | |
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| | father's mother / granny (dialect) / respectful form of address for older lady | |
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| | (dialect) husband's mother | |
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| | parents (father and mother) | |
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| | (dialect) mother-in-law / (house)wife | |
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| | auntie, youngest of sisters in mother's family | |
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| | wife's mother; mother-in-law | |
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| | maternal grandfather (i.e. mother's father) | |
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| | (informal) mother's brother's wife / maternal uncle's wife | |
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| | (Catholicism) Rahab, mother of Boaz | |
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| | Maria (name) / Mary, mother of Jesus Christ | |
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| | supreme goodness / (respectful term for sb's mother) | |
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| | (polite) my mother | |
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| | great-grandmother (mother's grandmother) | |
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