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: Buddhism 佛教
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

母板 motherboard
曾祖母 paternal great-grandmother
母题(母題) motif ; main idea; theme
先母 deceased mother
亡母 deceased mother
褓母 governess; nanny
祖母绿(祖母綠) an emerald
万物母(萬物母) mother of the myriad living things
子母炸弹(子母炸彈) cluster bomb
座生水母 sessile medusa; sea anemone
酵母醇 zymosterol
母公司 parent company
需要是发明之母(需要是發明之母) Necessity is the mother of invention (European proverb).
高祖母 great-great-grandmother
航空母舰战斗群(航空母艦戰鬥群) carrier-based vanguard group (CBVG); naval battle group led by an aircraft carrier
家母 (polite) my mother
拉丁字母 Latin alphabet
祖姑母 father's father's sister; great aunt
奉母 presented it to his mother
知母 rhyzome of Anemarrhena
母船 mother ship
失败是成功之母(失敗是成功之母) Failure is the mother of success.
圣母峰(聖母峰) Goddess peak; Mt Everest
首字母拚音词(首字母拚音詞) acronym
子母弹(子母彈) cluster bomb; shrapnel
母校 alma mater
嫫母 an ugly woman
婶母(嬸母) wife of father's younger brother; aunt
姑母 father's sister; aunt
鴇母 a madam in charge of a brothel
母子垂直感染 mother-to-infant transmission
伯叔祖母 father's father's brother's wife; great aunt
三十六字母 thirty six initial consonants of Song phonetic theory
螺母螺栓 nuts and bolts
衣食父母 the people one depends upon for one's livelihood; one's bread and butter
益母草 motherwort (Leonurus heterophyllus or L. cardiaca)
王母娘娘(王母孃孃) Xi Wangmu; Queen of the West
螺丝母(螺絲母) nut (female component of nut and bolt)
母乳 mother's milk
母丧(母喪) the death of one's mother
桃花水母 freshwater jellyfish (Craspedacusta)
时母(時母) Kali
母群体(母群體) population; parent population
酵母菌 yeast; mold
抗母 com (as in dot-com)
母弹(母彈) parent shell (of a cluster bomb)
母以子贵(母以子貴) a mother is respected in accordance with her son's rank

Also contained in

师母、矩母那华、天母、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
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
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
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
杀母 (殺母) 宋公殺母弟須 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 4
母兄弟 (母兄弟) 諸母兄弟不出闕門 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 桓公 Lord Huan — count: 4