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U+6BCD, 母
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BCD

[U+6BCC]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6BCE]
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U+2E9F, ⺟
CJK RADICAL MOTHER

[U+2E9E]
CJK Radicals Supplement
[U+2EA0]
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Translingual

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Han character

(Kangxi radical 80, +1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 田卜戈 (WYI), four-corner 77500, composition ⿻⿻𠃋𠃌)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 588, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16723
  • Dae Jaweon: page 980, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2380, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6BCD

Further reading

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Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Differentiated form of with the addition of distinguishing dots. In the early oracle bone texts both words (OC *naʔ, *nas, “woman”) and were written as (Yao, 1989, Liu, 2011, Huang, 2014). Part of this character appears in .

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *məʔ (mother).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • mō̤ - “female; capital; suffix”;
  • mū - “mother”.

  • Dialectal data
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Definitions

  1. mother
    Antonym:
          father and mother
          mother and son
  2. Used to address a female elder member of a family.
    Antonym:
          father's sister
          grandmother
  3. (of animal) female
    Synonym: ()
    Antonym: (gōng)
       niú   female cow
  4. (figuratively, of instruments, tools, or connectors) female
  5. pertaining to origin
       xiào   alma mater
  6. a surname

Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Vietnamese: mẫu ()

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