母

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mother; elderly female relative; origin; source; (of animals) female

5 strokes Dict coverage rank #333 U+6BCD

Ideographic compound (会意字)

A mother's breasts

mother · Heisig RSH #105

女 woman — as a component also called: breasts

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Characters built with 母 as their sound component

These characters all use 母 (mǔ) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
母 sound component	mǔ	mother; female elders; female
毒	dú	poison, venom; drug, narcotic
姆	mǔ	governess, matron, nanny
每	měi	each, every
拇	mǔ	thumb; big toe
呣	m	interjection or exclamation indicating a question

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
西里尔字母	Xī lǐ ěr zì mǔ	Cyrillic alphabet; Cyrillic letters
水母体	shuǐ mǔ tǐ	jellyfish; medusa
公分母	gōng fēn mǔ	(math.) common denominator
罗马字母	Luó mǎ zì mǔ	Roman letters; Roman alphabet
子母	zǐ mǔ	mother and son; interest and capital; combination of a large object and a smaller one of t…
母子	mǔ zǐ	mother and child; parent and subsidiary (companies); principal and interest
人母	rén mǔ	mother (as a social role)
母国	mǔ guó	motherland; home country
水母	shuǐ mǔ	jellyfish; medusa
生母	shēng mǔ	natural mother; birth mother
二重母音	èr chóng mǔ yīn	diphthong
家母	jiā mǔ	(polite) my mother
母性	mǔ xìng	maternal instinct; motherliness
母机	mǔ jī	machine tool; mother ship
座生水母	zuò shēng shuǐ mǔ	sessile medusa; sea anemone
母上	mǔ shàng	(slang) mother; mom (from Japanese 母上 "haha-ue")
母体	mǔ tǐ	(zoology, medicine) mother's body; (chemistry etc) parent; matrix; (statistics) population…
分母	fēn mǔ	(math.) denominator of a fraction
西王母	Xī wáng mǔ	Xi Wangmu, Queen Mother of the West, keeper of the peaches of immortality; popularly known…
母语	mǔ yǔ	native language; mother tongue; (linguistics) parent language