母
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mother; elderly female relative; origin; source; (of animals) female
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 毋 +1
- Structure
- Single component 独体
- Traditional
- 母
- Common rank
- #332
- Unicode
- U+6BCD
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 母 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A mother's breasts
How to remember it
mother · Heisig RSH #105
女 woman — as a component also called: breasts
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 母
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 西里尔字母 | Cyrillic alphabet; Cyrillic letters | |
| 水母体 | jellyfish; medusa | |
| 公分母 | (math.) common denominator | |
| 罗马字母 | Roman letters; Roman alphabet | |
| 子母 | mother and son; interest and capital; combination of a large object and a smaller one of t… | |
| 母子 | mother and child; parent and subsidiary (companies); principal and interest | |
| 人母 | mother (as a social role) | |
| 母国 | motherland; home country | |
| 水母 | jellyfish; medusa | |
| 生母 | natural mother; birth mother | |
| 母性 | maternal instinct; motherliness | |
| 二重母音 | diphthong | |
| 家母 | (polite) my mother | |
| 母机 | machine tool; mother ship | |
| 座生水母 | sessile medusa; sea anemone | |
| 母上 | (slang) mother; mom (from Japanese 母上 "haha-ue") | |
| 分母 | (math.) denominator of a fraction | |
| 母体 | (zoology, medicine) mother's body; (chemistry etc) parent; matrix; (statistics) population… | |
| 西王母 | Xi Wangmu, Queen Mother of the West, keeper of the peaches of immortality; popularly known… | |
| 母语 | native language; mother tongue; (linguistics) parent language |
Sound family
These characters use 母 as their sound component — compare how they read.