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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
mā | ma1
English translation
mother, mama

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Number of strokes

13

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

Learning hint

woman

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

女馬

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

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Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
妈妈 māma mama媽媽
ma
他妈的 tā mā de fucking他媽的
姨妈 yí mā maternal aunt姨媽
妈咪 mā mi mommy (loanword)媽咪
大妈 dà mā father's elder brother's wife大媽
姑妈 gū mā paternal aunt姑媽
干妈 gān mā adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)乾媽
阿妈 ā mā nurse阿媽
奶妈 nǎi mā wet nurse奶媽
后妈 hòu mā (coll.) stepmother後媽
舅妈 jiù mā (coll.) aunt舅媽
妈祖 Mā zǔ Matsu, name of a sea goddess still widely worshipped on the SE China coast and in SE Asia媽祖
婆婆妈妈 pó po mā mā effeminate婆婆媽媽
老妈子 lǎo mā zi amah老媽子
姆妈 mǔ mā mom姆媽
事儿妈 shì r mā (coll.) fussbudget事兒媽
老大妈 lǎo dà mā "Madam" (affectionate term for an elderly woman)老大媽

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