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| | ma / mom / mother | HSK 1 |
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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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| | 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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| | mother and child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest | HSK 6 |
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| | mother and daughter / mother-daughter | HSK 6 |
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| | father's mother / paternal grandmother | HSK 6 |
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| | mother / elderly female relative / origin / source / (of animals) female | HSK 6 |
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| | mother's brother / maternal uncle (informal) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | mother's sister / aunt | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother | HSK 7-9 |
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| | wife's mother, mother-in-law | HSK 7-9 |
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| | mother / young lady / (coll.) effeminate | HSK 7-9 |
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| | earth / mother earth | 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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| | (coll.) mother's father / maternal grandfather | HSK 7-9 |
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| | native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language | |
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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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| | foster mother / adoptive mother | |
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| | husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma | |
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| | to rely on / father and mother (classical) | |
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| | Mother's Day | |
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| | jade / precious stone / mother-of-pearl / nacre / precious / used a complementary honorific | |
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| | parents (father and mother) | |
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| | mother; mom | |
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| | a mom (mother of a young child) | |
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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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| | paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary) | |
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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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| | (of an expectant mother) to be in labor | |
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| | my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife | |
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| | expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea | |
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| | wife's mother; mother-in-law | |
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| | grandma (paternal) (Tw) / (dialect) mother / nurse / amah / (Manchu) father | |
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| | granny / mother-in-law | |
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| | (coll.) mother's sister / maternal aunt | |
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| | Maria (name) / Mary, mother of Jesus Christ | |
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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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| | warm, caring mother | |
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| | mother-in-law and daughter-in-law | |
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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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| | title of respect for the queen mother or the emperor's father / nickname for Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后 | |
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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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| | maternal grandfather (i.e. mother's father) | |
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| | adoptive mother | |
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| | mother's mother / maternal grandmother | |
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| | to help a mother give birth | |
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| | mother's youngest sister / wife's younger sister; sister-in-law | |
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| | supreme goodness / (respectful term for sb's mother) | |
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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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| | a good wife and loving mother | |
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| | adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) | |
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| | the death of one's mother | |
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| | Failure is the mother of success. | |
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| | (dialect) mom; mother | |
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| | husband's mother | |
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| | suzerain state / mother country (of a colony) | |
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| | lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom) / fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor / what goes around comes around | |
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| | husband's father and mother | |
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| | (strictly speaking) sister of one's maternal grandmother; (more broadly) grandaunt; sister of one's mother's mother or mother's father / (Tw) (old) husband's maternal aunt | |
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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) wife / mother | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | (old) dowager / old lady (title for the mother of a noble or an official) | |
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| | mother and father / parents | |
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| | (honorific) your mother | |
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| | deceased mother | |
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| | (zoology, medicine) mother's body / (chemistry etc) parent / matrix / (statistics) population / parent population | |
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| | mother-of-pearl | |
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| | wife's mother; mother-in-law | |
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| | adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) | |
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| | mother's sister / maternal aunt | |
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| | (Protestantism) Rahab, mother of Boaz | |
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| | one's mother's loving face | |
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| | (of siblings) having the same father but different mothers | |
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| | (literary) my late mother | |
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| | (polite) my mother | |
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| | strict and compassionate / strict as a father and tender as a mother | |
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| | wife of mother's brother | |
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| | Your esteemed mother (honorific) | |
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| | (literary) mother-in-law / wife's mother | |
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| | native language / mother tongue | |
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| | mother's kinfolk | |
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| | father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother | |
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| | natural mother / birth mother | |
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| | (bound form) to rely on / (literary) one's mother | |
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| | mother's brother / maternal uncle | |
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| | mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister | |
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| | machine tool / mother ship | |
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| | (polite) my mother | |
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| | Xi Wangmu, Queen Mother of the West, keeper of the peaches of immortality / popularly known as 王母娘娘 | |
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| | another name for 西王母, Queen Mother of the West | |
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| | father's mother's sister (coll.) / great aunt | |
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| | mother (honorific designation) | |
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| | half-sibling relationship / brothers with different mother / step- | |
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