母U+6BCD5 STROKES
Entry·pron. mǔ
ㄇㄨˇ
“Mother; female elder; origin or source; female (of animals); female (gender).”
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- 母親ㄇㄨˇ ㄑㄧㄣmother; a female parent; one's mom
- 父母ㄈㄨˋ ㄇㄨˇfather and mother; parents
- 父母親ㄈㄨˋ ㄇㄨˇ ㄑㄧㄣparents; 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ㄗˋ ㄇㄨˇletter of the alphabet; in traditional Chinese phonology, a character representing an initial consonant.
- 祖母ㄗㄨˇ ㄇㄨˇfather'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ㄇㄨˇ ㄩˇnative 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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