母
U+6BCD
5 STROKES
Entry·pron. mǔ
ㄇㄨˇ
“Mother; female elder; origin or source; female (of animals); female (gender).”
Taiwan rank
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Radical
毋do not
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Words containing this character
Common words in our dictionary built on this character
- 母親mother; a female parent; one's mom
- 父母father and mother; parents
- 父母親parents; father and mother; one's mother and father
- 母親節ㄇㄨˇ ㄑㄧㄣ ㄐㄧㄝˊMother's Day; annual holiday honoring mothers, observed on the second Sunday of May in many countries.
- 字母letter of the alphabet; in traditional Chinese phonology, a character representing an initial consonant.
- 祖母father's mother; paternal grandmother; in modern usage also mother's mother (maternal grandmother).
- 保母ㄅㄠˇ ㄇㄨˇa woman employed to care for and raise someone else's children; a nanny; a childminder; (archaic) a royal governess or nurse in a palace.
- 母子ㄇㄨˇ ㄗˇmother and child; a mother and her son or daughter; (finance) principal and interest
- 母語native language; mother tongue; the language first learned in childhood; (linguistics) a parent language from which related languages descend.
- 母女ㄇㄨˇ ㄋㄩˇmother and daughter; a mother and her daughter; the mother-daughter relationship.
- 聖母ㄕㄥˋ ㄇㄨˇthe Virgin Mary; a goddess; a revered empress dowager or imperial birth mother; a compassionate woman or deity who protects the people
- 母校ㄇㄨˇ ㄒㄧㄠˋalma mater; the school or university one graduated from or once attended.
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