母
HSK 6freq #2351
Meanings
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- 1.mother
- 2.elderly female relative
- 3.origin
- 4.source
- 5.(of animals) female
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Wiktionary
- 1.mother
- 2.Used to address a female elder member of a family.
- 3.female
- 4.pertaining to origin
- 5.a surname
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Etymology
Differentiated form of 女 with the addition of distinguishing dots. In the early oracle bone texts both words 女 (OC *naʔ, *nas, “woman”) and 母 were written as 女 (Yao, 1989, Liu, 2011, Huang, 2014). Part of this character appears in 乳. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *məʔ (“mother”).
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Stroke order
Components
母㇗㇆⺀㇐
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
她的母親敲門。
Her mother knocked on the door.
明天是母親節。
Tomorrow is Mother's Day.
我不是你母親。
I'm not your mother.
她的母語是法語。
She is a native speaker of French.
他的母親不想做。
His mother didn't want to do it.
我想看看你的母親。
I want to see your mother.
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Derived terms
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