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母

  • mǔ (mu³) Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • ㄇㄨˇ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Bopomofo
  • mu³ Mandarin, Chengdu, Sichuanese
  • му (mu, II) Mandarin, Dongan, Cyrillic
  • mou⁵ Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong Kong
  • mu⁴ Cantonese, Taishanese, Wiktionary specific
  • mu³ Gan, Wiktionary specific
  • mû Hakka, Sixian, Phak fa su
  • mu¹ Hakka, 梅縣, 客家話拼音
  • mu² Jin, Wiktionary specific
  • mǔ Min Bei, 建寧羅馬字
  • mō̤ Min Dong, Foochow Romanized
  • mū Min Dong, Foochow Romanized
  • bú Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • bó Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • bó͘ Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • bió Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • bho² Min Nan, Teochew, Peng'im
  • ⁶mu Wu, Shanghai, Wugniu
  • mo³ Xiang, Changsha, Wiktionary specific
  • mǔ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • mǔ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Tongyong Pinyin
  • mu³ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Wade–Giles
  • mǔ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Yale
  • muu Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Gwoyeu Romatsyh
  • му Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Cyrillic
  • /mu²¹⁴/ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Sinological IPA

Where it comes from

象形漢字:站着或跪着的女性,胸部露出乳头。在现代形式中转向了左侧。对比女 (上古 *naʔ, *nas),其演化过程类似,但字形中没有表示乳头的点,并在现代形式中略去了一边胸部。

源自原始漢藏語 *mow (“女性”)。媽/妈 (mā)為其口語形式。

释义

  1. 生育了孩子的女性,母亲、妈妈 父母
  2. 家族中对祖辈女性的称呼 姑母
  3. 指动物 雌的,雌性的 母牛
  4. 指代来源,源头 母校
  5. 姓氏

Similar: 娘, 母親, 媽媽, 媽, 額娘, 老媽, 𫰎, 媽兒, 嬤, 阿媽, 姆媽, 大兒, 老娘, 阿娘, 阿娘子, 老媽子, 黎山老, 孟子見, 大老, 母兒, 嬸嬸, 娘老, 娘嬭, 媽爺, 大, 老母, 媽咪, 媽打, 阿奶, 阿仔

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In English

  • mother female (human) who gives birth to or parents a child
  • female belonging to the sex that typically produces eggs, or the gender typically assoc
  • nut that fits on a bolt

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"母." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/zh/%E6%AF%8D.

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {母},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/zh/%E6%AF%8D},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}