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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *媽* | 媽* | *媽
ma / mom / mother
HSK 1
mama / mommy / mother / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嬭* | 嬭* | *嬭
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 child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest
HSK 6
mother and daughter / mother-daughter
HSK 6
father's mother; paternal grandmother
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *母* | 母* | *母
mother / elderly female relative / origin / source / (of animals) female
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姨* | 姨* | *姨
mother's sister / aunt
HSK 7-9
mother's brother / maternal uncle (informal) / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
(coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother
HSK 7-9
wife's mother, mother-in-law
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *娘* | 娘* | *娘
mother / young lady / (coll.) effeminate
HSK 7-9
earth / mother earth
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 father / maternal grandfather
HSK 7-9
(coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother
HSK 7-9
native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *婆* | 婆* | *婆
(bound form) grandmother / (bound form) matron / (bound form) mother-in-law / (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *妣* | 妣* | *妣
deceased mother
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
another name for 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
foster mother / adoptive mother
husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma
Mother's Day
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *瑤* | 瑤* | *瑤
jade / precious stone / mother-of-pearl / nacre / precious / used a complementary honorific
to formally accept sb as (one's adoptive mother, one's master etc)
parents (father and mother)
(dialect) husband's mother
mother; mom
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *妗* | 妗* | *妗
wife of mother's brother
queen / empress / imperial concubine / Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West / mother / aunt
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姑* | 姑* | *姑
paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary)
(coll.) father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother / respectful form of address for an old woman
(of an expectant mother) to be in labor
my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife
expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea
grandma (paternal) (Tw) / (dialect) mother / nurse / amah / (Manchu) father
granny / mother-in-law
(coll.) mother's sister / maternal aunt
Maria (name) / Mary, mother of Jesus Christ
aunt (mother's eldest sister) / (respectful term of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother)
warm, caring mother
mother-in-law and daughter-in-law
six close relatives, namely: father , mother , older brothers , younger brothers , wife , male children / one's kin
(old) three generations (father, self and sons) / three clans (your own, your mother's, your wife's)
maternal grandfather (i.e. mother's father)
adoptive mother
to help a mother give birth
mother's youngest sister / wife's younger sister; sister-in-law
supreme goodness / (respectful term for sb's mother)
another name for Xi Wangmu 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
a good wife and loving mother
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
the death of one's mother
Failure is the mother of success.
(dialect) mom; mother
husband's mother
surrogate mother
suzerain state / mother country (of a colony)
husband's father and mother
(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
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
title of respect for the queen mother or the emperor's father / nickname for Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后
(old) wife / 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
(old) dowager / old lady (title for the mother of a noble or an official)
mother and father / parents
(honorific) your mother
deceased mother
(zoology, medicine) mother's body / (chemistry etc) parent / matrix / (statistics) population / parent population
mother-of-pearl
wife's mother; mother-in-law
(Protestantism) Rahab, mother of Boaz
one's mother's loving face
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers
(literary) my late mother
(polite) my mother
strict and compassionate / strict as a father and tender as a mother
Your esteemed mother (honorific)
(literary) mother-in-law / wife's mother
mother's kinfolk
father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother
natural mother / birth mother
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *恃* | 恃* | *恃
(bound form) to rely on / (literary) one's mother
mother's brother / maternal uncle
mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister
machine tool / mother ship
(polite) my mother
Xi Wangmu, Queen Mother of the West, keeper of the peaches of immortality / popularly known as 王母娘娘
father's mother's sister (coll.) / great aunt
mother (honorific designation)
half-sibling relationship / brothers with different mother / step-
to lose sb one relies upon / to lose one's mother
husband of mother's sister / uncle
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *珧* | 珧* | *珧
mother-of-pearl
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *娭* | 娭* | *娭
see 娭姐, father's mother / granny (dialect) / respectful form of address for older lady

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