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HSK
father and mother; parents
HSK 3
mother / also pr. [mu3 qin5] / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
letter (of the alphabet) / 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
hen / don't know (humorous slang mimicking Cantonese 唔知, Jyutping: m4 zi1)
HSK 6
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mother / elderly female relative / origin / source / (of animals) female
HSK 6
stepmother
HSK 7-9
wife's mother, mother-in-law
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
native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language
alphabetical order
maternal aunt
the final of a Chinese syllable (the component of a syllable remaining after removal of the initial consonant, if any, and the tone, e.g. the final of "niáng" is "iang")
wet nurse
jellyfish / medusa
foster mother / adoptive mother
Mother's Day
(Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant)
the Virgin Mary
goddess
female dog / bitch
Notre-Dame Cathedral (Paris, France)
(Tw) Mount Everest
aircraft carrier (CL:) / (coll.) (metaphor for sth huge, whale-like)
wife's mother; mother-in-law
(military) cluster bomb / shrapnel
warm, caring mother
maternal love
capital letters / uppercase letters
(idiom) parents' orders and matchmaker's services (in establishing an arranged marriage)
yeast; saccharomycete
alphabet
lowercase (letters)
adoptive mother
husband and wife
mother's mother / maternal grandmother
tigress / (fig.) fierce woman / vixen
another name for Xi Wangmu 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
mother-of-pearl (used in ornamentation and in TCM)
a good wife and loving mother
yeast; saccharomycete (abbr. for 酵母菌)
the people one depends upon for one's livelihood / one's bread and butter
Latin alphabet
the death of one's mother
Greek alphabet
Failure is the mother of success.
phonetic letters
witch / shrew / vixen
the initial consonant of a Chinese syllable / the phonetic component of a phono-semantic compound character (e.g. the component in )
(biology) oocyte; ovocyte
breast milk
matrilineality
wife of father's younger brother / aunt
emerald
the bulb of the fritillary (Fritillaria thunbergii)
variant of 保姆
alma mater
Anemarrhena asphodeloides / rhyzome of Anemarrhena (used in TCM)
deceased mother
(old) birthday
(Tw) serving chopsticks and serving spoons used in communal dining to promote hygiene
(zoology, medicine) mother's body / (chemistry etc) parent / matrix / (statistics) population / parent population
wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother
mother-of-pearl
wife of father's elder brother (old)
Cyrillic alphabet / Cyrillic letters
wife's mother; mother-in-law
mica
term of respect for a teacher's wife
stepmother
mother's sister / maternal aunt
to have lost both one's parents
great-great-grandmother
queen bee
vowel
compound final
master tape
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers
(polite) my mother
female brothel keeper / a bawd
aunt / wife of father's younger brother
simple finals
Oedipus complex
(math.) common denominator
mother's kinfolk
father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother
natural mother / birth mother
diphthong / compound vowel
father's wife (term used by the children of a concubine)
nut (female component of nut and bolt)
father's sister / paternal aunt
machine tool / mother ship
nut (female component of nut and bolt)
Xi Wangmu, Queen Mother of the West, keeper of the peaches of immortality / popularly known as 王母娘娘
motherboard
another name for 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
(literary) paternal grandmother

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