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See also:
U+5ABD, 媽
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5ABD

[U+5ABC]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5ABE]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 38, +10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女尸手火 (VSQF), four-corner 41427, composition )

Derived characters

  • 𢢷

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 268, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6590
  • Dae Jaweon: page 535, character 40
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1070, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+5ABD
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *maːʔ): semantic + phonetic (OC *mraːʔ).

Etymology

Colloquial form of (OC *mɯʔ, “mother”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mow (woman, female).

Pronunciation

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More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...

Note:
  • maa1 - mother;
  • maa4 - alternative form of (, “paternal grandmother”);
  • maa2 - maid;
  • maa5 - "Mazu", particularly in 媽祖妈祖.

Definitions

  1. mom; mum: an affectionate term for a mother
       Wǒ de ya!   Oh my God! [Literally: Oh my Mom!]
  2. (usually with qualifier) other older female relatives or house-servants
  3. (religion) "The Mother", an epithet of the Fujianese sea goddess Mazu (媽祖妈祖).
  4. (obsolete, hapax legomenon) mare; female horse

Synonyms

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Compounds

Descendants

  • Thai: ม้า (máa)
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Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. mother

Readings

  • Go-on: (mo)
  • Kan-on: (bo)
  • Kan’yō-on: (ma)
  • Kun: はは (haha, )

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

(ma) (hangeul , revised ma, McCuneReischauer ma)

  1. mother
  2. grandmother

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: mụ, , , mợ, ma

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