mother

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

馬 sound component

  Sound component

  

horse

Definitions

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mother, mama; ma; mom; mother

Most common words with 媽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

妈妈

mama

ma

他妈的

fucking

姨妈

maternal aunt

妈咪

mommy (loanword)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 85.1834% of movies

98th most common character in movies

750th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+5ABD


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