"Mother" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 mā ma mama / mommy / mother / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
 mǔ qīn mother / also pr. [mu3 qin5] / CL:個|个[ge4]
 lǎo mā mother / mom
 niáng niang queen / empress / imperial concubine / Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 / or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West / mother / aunt
 ā mā grandma (paternal) (Tw) / (dialect) mother / nurse / amah / (Manchu) father
 mǔ mother / elderly female relative / origin / source / (of animals) female
 mā ma / mom / mother
 nǎi mother / variant of 奶[nai3]
 shì to rely on / mother (formal)
 mǔ mā mom / mother (dialect)
 jiě mother
 xuān táng mother (honorific designation)
 é mā ma Mother
 zhēn fú dé lán xiū nu:3 Mother
 fù mǔ father and mother / parents
 dà dì earth / mother earth
 dà fāng expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea
 pó po husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma
 lǎo tài tai elderly lady (respectful) / esteemed mother / CL:位[wei4]
 wài pó (coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother
 bèi ké shell / conch / cowry / mother of pearl / hard outer skin / also pr. [bei4 qiao4]
 mǔ zǐ mother and child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest
 mǔ nu:3 mother and daughter / mother-daughter
 lǎo lao (coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother
 zào huà good luck / Nature (as the mother of all things)
 zǔ mǔ father's mother / paternal grandmother
 lǎo niáng my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife
 mǔ zhū sow / mother pig
 mǔ yǔ native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language
 yuè mǔ wife's mother, mother-in-law
 lǎo nǎi nai (coll.) father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother / respectful form of address for an old woman
 èr lǎo mother and father / parents
 zhàng mǔ niáng wife's mother / mother-in-law / same as 丈母
 shēng mǔ natural mother / birth mother
 cí mǔ warm, caring mother
 xián qī liáng mǔ a good wife and loving mother
 gān mā adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
西 Xī wáng mǔ Xi Wangmu, Queen Mother of the West, keeper of the peaches of immortality / popularly known as 王母娘娘
 yǎng mǔ foster mother / adoptive mother
 jiā mǔ (polite) my mother
 dài yùn to serve as a surrogate mother / surrogacy
 wài zǔ mǔ mother's mother / maternal grandmother
 Mǎ lì yà Maria (name) / Mary, mother of Jesus Christ
 gé shān half-sibling relationship / brothers with different mother / step-
 yuè sǎo woman hired to take care of a newborn child and its mother in the month after childbirth
 lìng táng (honorific) your mother
 mǔ jī machine tool / mother ship
 zhù chǎn to help a mother give birth
 liù qīn six close relatives, namely: father 父[fu4], mother 母[mu3], older brothers 兄[xiong1], younger brothers 弟[di4], wife 妻[qi1], male children 子[zi3] / one's kin
 yì mǔ adoptive mother
 zōng zhǔ guó suzerain state / mother country (of a colony)
 zēng zǔ mǔ father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother
 Kǔ Cài huā Bitter Cauliflower, 1954 socialist realist novel by Feng Deying 馮德英|冯德英[Feng2 De2 ying1] loosely based on Maxim Gorky's Mother, made into a 1967 film by Li Ang
 Wáng tài hòu Queen Dowager (in Europe) / widowed queen / Queen mother
 An1 Dé hǎi An Dehai (-1869), the Qing equivalent of Rasputin, all-powerful court eunuch with the dowager empress Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4], executed in 1869 by her rival Empress Mother Empress Dowager Ci'an 慈安皇太后
 zhàng mǔ wife's mother / mother-in-law
 gū paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary)
 jìng a mythical animal that eats its mother
 bǐ deceased mother
 qǐ mountain without vegetation / the residence of one's mother / see also 岵[hu4]
 Wáng mǔ niáng niáng another name for Xi Wangmu 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
 Lǎo fó yé title of respect for the queen mother or the emperor's father / nickname for Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4]
 gān niáng adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
 běn zú yǔ native language / mother tongue
 mǔ chuán mother ship
 shī bài shì chéng gōng zhī mǔ Failure is the mother of success.
 zhà dàn zhī mǔ Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB), or Mother of All Bombs, a powerful American bomb
 wáng mǔ deceased mother
 lìng cí Your esteemed mother (honorific)
 E2 dǐ pǔ sī Oedipus, legendary king of Thebes who killed his father and married his mother
 xiān bǐ deceased mother / mother of an ancestor
 xiān cí deceased mother
 āi zǐ son orphaned of his mother
 yán cí strict and compassionate / strict as a father and tender as a mother
 shī shì to lose sb one relies upon / to lose one's mother
 āi see 娭姐[ai1 jie3], father's mother / granny (dialect) / respectful form of address for older lady
 āi jiě father's mother / granny (dialect) / respectful form of address for older lady
 Lào Aǐ Lao Ai (-238 BC), man of Qin famous for his giant penis / in fiction, bogus eunuch and the consort of king Ying Zheng's mother lady Zhao
 jì mǔ foster mother
 zūn táng (honorific) your mother
 hù shì to rely on / father and mother (classical)
 mǔ shòu mother animal
 róng xuè bìng hemolytic disease of newborn (breakdown of red blood cells due to alloimmune reaction between mother and fetus)
 cào nǐ mā fuck your mother (vulgar)
 Gāi yà Gaea, the Earth Goddess and mother of the Titans
 xū yào shì fā míng zhī mǔ Necessity is the mother of invention (European proverb).
 tài fū rén (old) dowager / old lady (title for the mother of a noble or an official)
 tài shuǐ (literary) mother-in-law / wife's mother
 wēng gū husband's father and mother
  Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth
  social mother
  surrogate mother
HIV感  child born to infected mother
  International Mother Earth Day
  MAMTA - Health Institute for the Mother and Child
  World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
  genetic mother
  International Mother Language Day
  Mother and Child Health Forum
  Mother and Child Health Week
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