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HSK
father and mother; parents
HSK 3
letter (of the alphabet) / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
father's mother / paternal grandmother
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
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
(Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant)
the Virgin Mary
goddess
warm, caring mother
capital letters / uppercase letters
lowercase (letters)
adoptive mother
mother's mother / maternal grandmother
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
Greek alphabet
Failure is the mother of success.
phonetic letters
the initial consonant of a Chinese syllable / the phonetic component of a phono-semantic compound character (e.g. the component in )
wife of father's younger brother / aunt
the bulb of the fritillary (Fritillaria thunbergii)
variant of 保姆
Anemarrhena asphodeloides / rhyzome of Anemarrhena (used in TCM)
deceased mother
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
great-great-grandmother
compound final
(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
(math.) common denominator
father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother
natural mother / birth mother
father's wife (term used by the children of a concubine)
nut (female component of nut and bolt)
father's sister / paternal aunt
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
another name for 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
(literary) paternal grandmother
Roman letters / Roman alphabet
wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife
foster mother
like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor
thirty six initial consonants of Song phonetic theory
muscovite; white mica
denominator of a fraction
lowest common denominator
(of Chinese pronunciation) a vowel followed by a nasal consonant
mother and son / interest and capital / combination of a large object and a smaller one of the same type
godmother
initial letters
paternal grandparents
matricide / to commit matricide
mother (as a social role)
variant of 保姆
comb jellies (Ctenophora)
motherwort (Leonurus heterophyllus)
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers / half (brother or sister)
Nicodemus, prominent Jew of the time of Christ, mentioned in the Gospel of John
aircraft carrier (abbr. for 航空母艦|航空母舰)
immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii)
godmother / surrogate mother
great-grandparents
hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet; Korean letters
(zoology) Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis)
freshwater jellyfish (Craspedacusta)
wet nurse
(electronics) pin socket; female header
in place of sb's parents / in loco parentis (law)
(Tw) surrogacy / surrogate pregnancy / surrogate mother
father's father's brother's wife / great aunt
my late paternal grandmother
wife's aunt
sessile medusa / sea anemone
(loanword) com (as in "dot-com")
great-grandmother (mother's grandmother)
hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet / Korean letters
Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB), or Mother of All Bombs, a powerful American bomb

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