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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *媽* | 媽* | *媽
ma / mom / mother
HSK 1
mama / mommy / mother / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
father and mother; parents
HSK 3
mother / also pr. [mu3 qin5] / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
elderly lady (respectful) / esteemed mother / CL:
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *母* | 母* | *母
mother / elderly female relative / origin / source / (of animals) female
HSK 6
wife's mother, mother-in-law
HSK 7-9
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
wife's mother; mother-in-law
Mother's Day
mother's eldest sister (older than one's mother) / (coll.) (euphemism) Aunt Flo (i.e. menstrual period)
father's mother; paternal grandmother
HSK 6
earth / mother earth
HSK 7-9
(coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother
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
mother and child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姨* | 姨* | *姨
mother's sister / aunt
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *娘* | 娘* | *娘
mother / young lady / (coll.) effeminate
HSK 7-9
aunt (mother's eldest sister) / (respectful term of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother)
mother and daughter / mother-daughter
HSK 6
queen / empress / imperial concubine / Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West / mother / aunt
surrogate mother
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers / half (brother or sister)
mother's mother / maternal grandmother
(coll.) mother's father / maternal grandfather
HSK 7-9
wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife
mother's youngest sister / wife's younger sister; sister-in-law
warm, caring mother
(honorific) your mother
mother (as a social role)
to help a mother give birth
father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother
mother's sister / maternal aunt
(coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother
HSK 7-9
another name for Xi Wangmu 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
mother-of-pearl (used in ornamentation and in TCM)
Tamir (mother of Perez and Zerah)
mother-in-law and daughter-in-law
(coll.) father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother / respectful form of address for an old woman
my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife
(old) three generations (father, self and sons) / three clans (your own, your mother's, your wife's)
six close relatives, namely: father , mother , older brothers , younger brothers , wife , male children / one's kin
natural mother / birth mother
a good wife and loving mother
mother and father / parents
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.
(biology) mother cell; matricyte
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma
suzerain state / mother country (of a colony)
woman hired to take care of a newborn child and its mother in the month after childbirth
mother-to-be
Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB), or Mother of All Bombs, a powerful American bomb
(Tw) (vulgar) fuck you! (literally, "fuck your mother")
(polite) my mother
to rely on / father and mother (classical)
mother's womb
expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea
machine tool / mother ship
mother's brother / maternal uncle (informal) / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *婆* | 婆* | *婆
(bound form) grandmother / (bound form) matron / (bound form) mother-in-law / (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship)
(slang) mother; mom (from Japanese 母上 "haha-ue")
son orphaned of his mother
auntie, third eldest of sisters in mother's family
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
deceased mother
to serve as a surrogate mother / surrogacy
auntie, eldest of sisters in mother's family
hemolytic disease of newborn (breakdown of red blood cells due to alloimmune reaction between mother and fetus)
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers
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
(old) dowager / old lady (title for the mother of a noble or an official)
foster mother / adoptive mother
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *珧* | 珧* | *珧
mother-of-pearl
Your esteemed mother (honorific)
husband's mother
adoptive mother
mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister
(coll.) mother's sister / maternal aunt
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *恃* | 恃* | *恃
(bound form) to rely on / (literary) one's mother
(medicine) to unblock breastmilk flow (of a nursing mother with clogged milk ducts)
(literary) my late mother
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姑* | 姑* | *姑
paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary)
(of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers / half (brother or sister)
to lose sb one relies upon / to lose one's mother
husband of mother's sister / uncle
father's mother / granny (dialect) / respectful form of address for older lady
(dialect) husband's mother
parents (father and mother)
(dialect) mother-in-law / (house)wife
auntie, youngest of sisters in mother's family
wife's mother; mother-in-law
maternal grandfather (i.e. mother's father)
(informal) mother's brother's wife / maternal uncle's wife
(Catholicism) Rahab, mother of Boaz
Maria (name) / Mary, mother of Jesus Christ
supreme goodness / (respectful term for sb's mother)
(polite) my mother
great-grandmother (mother's grandmother)

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