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母
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Definitions
- 1. mother
- 2. elderly female relative
- 3. origin
- 4. source
- 5. (of animals) female
Example Sentences
1 shown應該將小牛從 母 牛身邊帶開。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 母
deceased mother
aircraft carrier
home port (of a ship or fleet)
father's father's sister
rune
witch
native language
aircraft carrier
yeast; saccharomycete
breastfeeding
artillery cluster bomb
father and mother; parents
Nicodemus, prominent Jew of the time of Christ, mentioned in the Gospel of John
letter (of the alphabet)
Mary (mother of Jesus)
the people one depends upon for one's livelihood
nuts and bolts
surrogate mother
biological parents
mother (as a social role)
great-grandmother (mother's grandmother)
cluster bomb
Mother's Day
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers
initial letters
(polite) my mother
in place of sb's parents
snap fastener
wet nurse
(of Chinese pronunciation) a vowel followed by a nasal consonant
warm, caring mother
term of respect for a teacher's wife
godmother
husband and wife
acronym
(Internet slang) sanctimonious bitch
mother-of-pearl
hen
motherwort (Leonurus heterophyllus or L. cardiaca)
surrogate pregnancy
lowercase (letters)
father's mother
mica
nut (female component of nut and bolt)
wife of mother's brother
Anemarrhena asphodeloides
nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB), or Mother of All Bombs, a powerful American bomb
mother and daughter
the death of one's mother
father's father's mother
(military) cluster bomb
step-parents
wife of father's younger brother
breast milk substitute
motif (loanword)
denominator of a fraction
mother
maternal aunt
alma mater
maternal love
like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor
Goddess peak (Nepalese: Sagarmatha, Sky Goddess)
matricide
vowel
the final of a Chinese syllable (the component of a syllable remaining after removal of the initial consonant, if any, and the tone, e.g. the final of \niáng\ is \iang\)
female brothel keeper
freshwater jellyfish (Craspedacusta)
(zoology) Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis)
yeast
mother's womb
parents
mother-to-infant transmission
a good wife and loving mother
adoptive parents
infant formula
father's father's brother's wife
parent company
foster mother
nut (female component of nut and bolt)
mother ship
breastfeeding
wife of father's elder brother
the Virgin Mary
see 注音符號|注音符号[zhù yīn fú hào]
hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet
egg cell
(slang) never been in a romantic relationship
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers
Church of Our Lady
breastfeeding
word that contains one or more letters of an alphabet (e.g. HSK, PK, WTO, PO文, PM2.5, γ射線|γ射线[γ shè xiàn])
father's sister
matriarchy
carrier-based vanguard group (CBVG)
(statistics) population
Xi Wangmu, Queen Mother of the West, keeper of the peaches of immortality
adoptive mother
jellyfish
another name for Xi Wangmu 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
deceased paternal grandmother
jellyfish
capital letters
a son won't abandon his mother for being ugly, just as a dog won't abandon its owner for being poor (proverb)
(of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers
acronym
the bulb of the fritillary (Fritillaria thunbergii)
paternal grandparents
wife's mother
alphabetical order
sessile medusa
mother's sister
diphthong
(loanword) com (as in \dot-com\)
Roman letters
machine tool
Second book of Samuel
foster mother
alphabet
Failure is the mother of success.
to have lost both one's parents
the initial consonant of a Chinese syllable
female husky (dog)
hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet; Korean letters
tigress
natural mother
(Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant)
thirty six initial consonants of Song phonetic theory
mother and child
cue ball (in billiards)
one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)
zymosterol
maternal
see 兒不嫌母醜，狗不嫌家貧|儿不嫌母丑，狗不嫌家贫[ér bù xián mǔ chǒu , gǒu bù xián jiā pín]
generating function (math.)
great-great-grandmother
Cyrillic alphabet
generating line
Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Christian festival on 15th August)
Necessity is the mother of invention (European proverb).
Notre-Dame Cathedral (Paris, France)
mother's mother
(zoology, medicine) mother's body
simple finals
muscovite
wife's mother
emerald
wife's mother, mother-in-law
parent material (e.g. the eroded rock making up sediment)
mother and daughter
wife's aunt
wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother
stepmother
matrilineality
one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)
Greek alphabet
great-grandparents
phonetic letters
stepmother
motherwort (Leonurus heterophyllus)
breast milk
comb jellies (Ctenophora)
vowel harmony (in phonetics)
mother's kinfolk
lowest common denominator
never been in a romantic relationship
mother and son
female dog
compound final
motherboard
Latin alphabet
godmother
another name for 西王母[xī wáng mǔ], Queen Mother of the West
master tape
diphthong
wet nurse
First book of Samuel
(neologism c. 2017) (slang) kindly, indulgent smile (usu. on the face of a woman)
parent shell (of a cluster bomb)
(science fiction) home planet
aunt
queen bee
immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii)
Oedipus complex