mother

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

麽 sound component

  Sound component

me

  

interrogative particle

Definitions

() 

mother

() 

dialectal or obsolete equivalent of |[mā]; Taiwan pr. [mā]

Most common words with 嬷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

嬷嬷

wet nurse

Taiwan pr. [mā]