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

代替父母 in place of parents; in loco parentis
母亲(母親) mother
韩文字母(韓文字母) hangul
母质(母質) parent material
撒母耳记下(撒母耳記下) Second book of Samuel
父精母血 born from a mother and father
母丧(母喪) the death of one's mother
二重母音 diphthong
母体(母體) mother's body; (chemistry etc) parent; matrix; (statistics) population; parent population
拼音字母 phonetic letters
先母 deceased mother
母权制(母權制) matriarchy
母子 mother and child ; parent and subsidiary (companies) ; principal and interest
圣母教堂(聖母教堂) Church of Our Lady / Frauenkirche
父母 parents; mother and father ; prefects and county magistrates
母汤(母湯) don't; must not; won't do
丈母娘 mother-in-law; wife's mother
喂母乳(餵母乳) breastfeeding
珍珠母 mother-of-pearl (used in ornamentation and in TCM)
核动力航空母舰(核動力航空母艦) nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
慈母 a loving mother
抗母 com (as in dot-com)
鼻韵母(鼻韻母) (of Chinese pronunciation) a vowel followed by a nasal consonant
母党(母黨) mother's kinfolk
朝鲜字母(朝鮮字母) hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet; Korean letters
哺母乳 breastfeeding
曾外祖母 great-grandmother (mother's grandmother)
恋母情结(戀母情結) Oedipus complex
母乳化奶粉 infant formula
酵母醇 zymosterol
义母(義母) adoptive mother
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
分母 denominator
万物母(萬物母) mother of the myriad living things
大写字母(大寫字母) capital letters; uppercase letters
先大母 deceased paternal grandmother
酿母菌(釀母菌) yeast
奶母 wet nurse
叔祖母 wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother
婶母(嬸母) wife of father's younger brother; aunt
王母 grandmother
母姬 step mother
三十六字母 thirty six initial consonants of Song phonetic theory

Also contained in

师母、父母官、韵母、亚兰字母、巴黎圣母院、全浊声母、母语、国音字母

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

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 (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