Chinese Notes

母 mǔ

mǔ noun mother
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, in literary Chinese, 慈母多敗兒 'a mother who lavishes too much love on her children spoils them', from Han Feizi's Xian Xue (CC-CEDICT '母'; DCP 'C222'; Guoyu '母' n 3; Kroll 2015 '母' 1, p. 315; Unihan '母'; XHZD '母' 1, p. 518)
mǔ radical Kangxi radical 80
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
Notes: (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7)
mǔ adjective female
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Nature
Notes: Used to describe the sex of female animals; for example, 母牛 'cow' (CC-CEDICT '母'; Guoyu '母' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '母' 2, p. 315; Unihan '母'; XHZD '母' 3, p. 518)
mǔ noun female elders; older female relatives
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, 姑母 'aunt' (CC-CEDICT '母'; Guoyu '母' n 1; Kroll 2015 '母' 1a, p. 315; Unihan '母'; XHZD '母' 2, p. 518)
mǔ noun parent; source; origin
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 根源 (CC-CEDICT '母'; Guoyu '母' n 4; Kroll 2015 '母' 5, p. 315; XHZD '母' 4, p. 518)
mǔ noun all women
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '母' 1b, p. 315)
mǔ verb to foster; to nurture
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '母' 3, p. 315)
mǔ noun a large proportion of currency
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '母' 4, p. 315)
mǔ noun investment capital
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '母' 4a, p. 315)

Contained in

母以子贵(母以子貴) a mother is respected in accordance with her son's rank
失败是成功之母(失敗是成功之母) Failure is the mother of success.
祖姑母 father's father's sister; great aunt
嫫母 an ugly woman
圣母(聖母) Holy Mother; goddess; the Virgin Mary
栉水母(櫛水母) comb jellies (Ctenophora)
母党(母黨) mother's kinfolk
奶母 wet nurse
继父母(繼父母) step-parents
母蜂 queen bee
炸弹之母(炸彈之母) Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB), or Mother of All Bombs, a powerful American bomb
奉母 presented it to his mother
圣母教堂(聖母教堂) Church of Our Lady / Frauenkirche
叔母 wife of father's younger brother; aunt
事父母 serve parents
西里尔字母(西里爾字母) Cyrillic alphabet; Cyrillic letters
小写字母(小寫字母) lowercase letters
母丧(母喪) the death of one's mother
慈母 a loving mother
后母(後母) stepmother
薄母 a madam in charge of a brothel
字母 a letter; an alphabet
拉丁字母 Latin alphabet
珍珠母 mother-of-pearl (used in ornamentation and in TCM)
桃花水母 freshwater jellyfish (Craspedacusta)
首字母拚音词(首字母拚音詞) acronym
母港 home port (of a ship or fleet)
母汤(母湯) don't; must not; won't do
母亲(母親) mother
再生父母 like a second parent; one's great benefactor
需要是发明之母(需要是發明之母) Necessity is the mother of invention (European proverb).
航空母舰(航空母艦) aircraft carrier
母线(母線) generating line; generatrix (in geometry); bus (in electronics); bus bar
母子 mother and child ; parent and subsidiary (companies) ; principal and interest
伯母 wife of father's elder brother; aunt
水母 a jellyfish
圣母婊(聖母婊) sanctimonious bitch
水母体(水母體) jellyfish; medusa
曾外祖母 great-grandmother (mother's grandmother)
罗马字母(羅馬字母) Roman letters; Roman alphabet
叔丈母 wife's aunt
朝鲜字母(朝鮮字母) hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet; Korean letters
大写字母(大寫字母) capital letters; uppercase letters

Also contained in

父母官、亚兰字母、注音字母、巴黎圣母院、字母系统、韵母、二合字母、母音

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Collocations

母弟 (母弟) 昏棄厥遺王父母弟 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書牧誓 Zhou Shu - Speech at Mu — count: 32
母死 (母死) 子上之母死而不喪 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《檀弓上》 Tan Gong I — count: 18
母曰 (母曰) 母曰 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧魏‧陟岵 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Ahi Hu — count: 12
其父母 (其父母) 不得養其父母 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧唐‧鴇羽 Lessons from the states - Odes of Tang - Bao Yu — count: 8
念母 (念母) 康公念母也 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧秦‧渭陽 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qin - Wei Yang — count: 7
君母 (君母) 公子頑通乎君母 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧鄘‧牆有茨 Lessons from the states - Odes of Yong - Qiang You Ci — count: 6
母卒 (母卒) 滕子虞母卒 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 哀公 Lord Ai — count: 6
王父母 (王父母) 昏棄厥遺王父母弟 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書牧誓 Zhou Shu - Speech at Mu — count: 5
母兄 (母兄) 母兄稱兄 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 4
母在 (母在) 楚大子建之母在 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 4