mother; (of animals) female; origin

HSK 4 #565

Character data

HSK 4
Frequency 565th character
Radical ⽏ (80.1)
Strokes 5
Index # 345

Definitions

母 mǔ
  1. 1. mother
  2. 2. (of animals) female
  3. 3. origin
  4. 4. source
  5. 5. elderly female relative

Stroke order

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Words containing 母

Word Meaning
wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother
bus (in electronics); bus bar; generatrix (in geometry)
queen bee
the initial consonant (of a Chinese syllable); consonant
final part of a syllable; main vowel sound
wife's mother; mother-in-law
thirty six initial consonants of Song phonetic theory
wet nurse
diphthong
deceased mother
in place of sb's parents; in loco parentis (law)
great aunt; father's father's brother's wife
variant of bǎo mǔ
deceased paternal grandmother
a son won't abandon his mother for being ugly, just as a dog won't abandon its owner for being poor (proverb)
a son won't abandon his mother for being ugly, just as a dog won't abandon its owner for being poor (proverb)
husband and wife
husband and wife
like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor
egg cell
egg cell
wife's aunt
(of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers
(of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers