母 mǔ
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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
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- 卷二百九十七 列傳第一百八十五 孝義二 Volume 297 Biographies 185: Filial Acts 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 133
- 卷一百九十七 列傳第八十四: 孝友一 Volume 197 Biographies 84: Filial and Brotherly Acts 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 92
- 卷四百五十六 列傳第二百十五 孝義 李璘甄婆兒 徐承珪 劉孝忠 呂升王翰 羅居通黃德輿 齊得一 李罕澄 邢神留沈正 許祚李琳等 胡仲堯弟:仲容 陳兢 洪文撫 易延慶 董道明 郭琮畢贊 顧忻李瓊 朱泰 成象 陳思道 方綱 龐天祐 劉斌 樊景溫榮恕旻 祁暐 何保之 李玭 侯義 王光濟李祚 周善敏 江白 裘承詢孫浦等 常眞子:晏 王洤等 杜誼 姚宗明 鄧中和 毛安輿 李訪 朱壽昌 侯可 申積中 郝戭 支漸 鄧宗古 沈宣 蘇慶文臺亨 仰忻 趙伯深 彭瑜 毛洵李籌 楊芾 楊慶 陳宗 郭義 申世寧 苟與齡 王珠 顏詡 張伯威 蔡定 鄭綺鮑宗巌 Volume 456 Biographies 215: Filial Acts - Li Linzhenpoer, Xu Chenggui, Liu Xiaozhong, Lu Shengwanghan, Luo Jutonghuangdeyu, Qi Deyi, Li Hancheng, Xing Shenliushenzheng, Xu Zuolilindeng, Hu Zhongyaodi:zhongrong, Chen Jing, Hong Wenfu, Yi Yanqing, Dong Daoming, Guo Congbizan, Gu Xinliqiong, Zhu Tai, Cheng Xiang, Chen Sidao, Fang Gang, Pang Tianyou, Liu Bin, Fan Jingwenrongshumin, Qi Wei, He Baozhi, Li Pin, Hou Yi, Wang Guangjilizuo, Zhou Shanmin, Jiang Bai, Qiu Chengxunsunpudeng, Chang Zhenzi:yan, Wang Quandeng, Du Yi, Yao Zongming, Deng Zhonghe, Mao Anyu, Li Fang, Zhu Shouchang, Hou Ke, Shen Jizhong, Hao Yan, Zhi Jian, Deng Zonggu, Shen Xuan, Su Qingwentaiheng, Yang Xin, Zhao Boshen, Peng Yu, Mao Xunlichou, Yang Fei, Yang Qing, Chen Zong, Guo Yi, Shen Shining, Gou Yuling, Wang Zhu, Yan Bi, Zhang Bowei, Cai Ding, Zheng Qibao Zongyan History of Song 宋史 — count: 81
- 卷七十三 列傳第六十三 孝義上 Volume 73 Biographies 63: Filial Acts 1 History of the Southern Dynasties 南史 — count: 65
- 卷一百二十五 志第七十八 禮二十八 Volume 125 Treatises 78: Rites 28 History of Song 宋史 — count: 60
- 卷二十 志第十 禮中 Volume 20 Treatises 10: Rites Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 57
- 卷二十七 志第七: 禮儀七 Volume 27 Treatises 7: Rites 7 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 53
- 卷三百〇一 列傳第一百八十九 列女一 Volume 301 Biographies 189: Exemplary Women 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 48
- 卷一百九十八 列傳第八十五: 孝友二 Volume 198 Biographies 85: Filial and Brotherly Acts 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 44
- 卷七十一 列傳第九: 斡魯 斡魯古勃堇 婆盧火 吾紮忽 闍母子:宗敘(本名德壽) Volume 71 Biographies 9: Wo Lu, Wolu gubojin, Po Luhuo, Wu Zahu, She Mu and son: Zongxu (formerly named Deshou) History of Jin 金史 — count: 42
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