妈 妈 mama / mommy / mother / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] 母 亲 mǔ qīn mother / also pr. [mu3 qin5] / CL:個|个[ge4] 老 妈 lǎo mā mother / mom 娘 娘 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 阿 妈 ā mā grandma (paternal) (Tw) / (dialect) mother / nurse / amah / (Manchu) father 母 mother / elderly female relative / origin / source / (of animals) female 妈 ma / mom / mother 奶 mother / variant of 奶[nai3] 恃 to rely on / mother (formal) 姆 妈 mǔ mā mom / mother (dialect) 毑 mother 萱 堂 xuān táng mother (honorific designation) 鹅 妈 妈 é mā ma Mother 真 福 德 兰 修 女 zhēn fú dé lán xiū nu:3 Mother 父 母 fù mǔ father and mother / parents 大 地 dà dì earth / mother earth 大 方 dà fāng expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea 婆 婆 pó po husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma 老 太 太 lǎo tài tai elderly lady (respectful) / esteemed mother / CL:位[wei4] 外 婆 wài pó (coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother 贝 壳 bèi ké shell / conch / cowry / mother of pearl / hard outer skin / also pr. [bei4 qiao4] 母 子 mǔ zǐ mother and child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest 母 女 mǔ nu:3 mother and daughter / mother-daughter 姥 姥 lǎo lao (coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother 造 化 zào huà good luck / Nature (as the mother of all things) 祖 母 zǔ mǔ father's mother / paternal grandmother 老 娘 lǎo niáng my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife 母 猪 mǔ zhū sow / mother pig 母 语 mǔ yǔ native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language 岳 母 yuè mǔ wife's mother, mother-in-law 老 奶 奶 lǎo nǎi nai (coll.) father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother / respectful form of address for an old woman 二 老 èr lǎo mother and father / parents 丈 母 娘 zhàng mǔ niáng wife's mother / mother-in-law / same as 丈母 生 母 shēng mǔ natural mother / birth mother 慈 母 cí mǔ warm, caring mother 贤 妻 良 母 xián qī liáng mǔ a good wife and loving mother 干 妈 gān mā adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) 西 王 母 Xī wáng mǔ Xi Wangmu, Queen Mother of the West, keeper of the peaches of immortality / popularly known as 王母娘娘 养 母 yǎng mǔ foster mother / adoptive mother 家 母 jiā mǔ (polite) my mother 代 孕 dài yùn to serve as a surrogate mother / surrogacy 外 祖 母 wài zǔ mǔ mother's mother / maternal grandmother 马 利 亚 Mǎ lì yà Maria (name) / Mary, mother of Jesus Christ 隔 山 gé shān half-sibling relationship / brothers with different mother / step- 月 嫂 yuè sǎo woman hired to take care of a newborn child and its mother in the month after childbirth 令 堂 lìng táng (honorific) your mother 母 机 mǔ jī machine tool / mother ship 助 产 zhù chǎn to help a mother give birth 六 亲 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 义 母 yì mǔ adoptive mother 宗 主 国 zōng zhǔ guó suzerain state / mother country (of a colony) 曾 祖 母 zēng zǔ mǔ father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother 苦 菜 花 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 王 太 后 Wáng tài hòu Queen Dowager (in Europe) / widowed queen / Queen mother 安 德 海 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 丈 母 zhàng mǔ wife's mother / mother-in-law 姑 paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary) 獍 a mythical animal that eats its mother 妣 deceased mother 屺 mountain without vegetation / the residence of one's mother / see also 岵[hu4] 王 母 娘 娘 Wáng mǔ niáng niáng another name for Xi Wangmu 西王母, Queen Mother of the West 老 佛 爷 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] 干 娘 gān niáng adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) 本 族 语 běn zú yǔ native language / mother tongue 母 船 mǔ chuán mother ship 失 败 是 成 功 之 母 shī bài shì chéng gōng zhī mǔ Failure is the mother of success. 炸 弹 之 母 zhà dàn zhī mǔ Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB), or Mother of All Bombs, a powerful American bomb 亡 母 wáng mǔ deceased mother 令 慈 lìng cí Your esteemed mother (honorific) 俄 底 浦 斯 E2 dǐ pǔ sī Oedipus, legendary king of Thebes who killed his father and married his mother 先 妣 xiān bǐ deceased mother / mother of an ancestor 先 慈 xiān cí deceased mother 哀 子 āi zǐ son orphaned of his mother 严 慈 yán cí strict and compassionate / strict as a father and tender as a mother 失 恃 shī shì to lose sb one relies upon / to lose one's mother 娭 see 娭姐[ai1 jie3], father's mother / granny (dialect) / respectful form of address for older lady 娭 姐 āi jiě father's mother / granny (dialect) / respectful form of address for older lady 嫪 毐 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 寄 母 jì mǔ foster mother 尊 堂 zūn táng (honorific) your mother 怙 恃 hù shì to rely on / father and mother (classical) 母 兽 mǔ shòu mother animal 溶 血 病 róng xuè bìng hemolytic disease of newborn (breakdown of red blood cells due to alloimmune reaction between mother and fetus) 肏 你 妈 cào nǐ mā fuck your mother (vulgar) 该 亚 Gāi yà Gaea, the Earth Goddess and mother of the Titans 需 要 是 发 明 之 母 xū yào shì fā míng zhī mǔ Necessity is the mother of invention (European proverb). 太 夫 人 tài fū rén (old) dowager / old lady (title for the mother of a noble or an official) 泰 水 tài shuǐ (literary) mother-in-law / wife's mother 翁 姑 wēng gū husband's father and mother 世 界 地 球 母 亲 权 利 宣 言 Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth 社 会 母 亲 social mother 代 孕 母 亲 surrogate mother HIV感 染 母 亲 所 生 婴 儿 child born to infected mother 国 际 地 球 母 亲 日 International Mother Earth Day 马 姆 塔 母 子 保 健 研 究 所 MAMTA - Health Institute for the Mother and Child 气 候 变 化 和 地 球 母 亲 权 利 世 界 人 民 大 会 World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth 基 因 母 亲 genetic mother 国 际 母 语 日 International Mother Language Day 母 子 保 健 论 坛 Mother and Child Health Forum 母 子 健 康 周 Mother and Child Health Week
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