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Meaning of 妈

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(Trad.: 媽)
Pinyin:
English Definition: ma; mom; mother
Chinese Definition:
①称呼母亲。
②对女性长辈的称呼:大妈。姑妈。
③旧时连着姓称中、老年蓬仆:刘妈。鲁妈。
Total strokes: 6; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (woman) conveys the meaning.
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Example Words
大妈 father's elder brother's wife; aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman)
姨妈 (coll.) mother's sister; maternal aunt
奶妈 nǎi wet nurse
姑妈 (coll.) father's married sister; paternal aunt
阿妈 ā grandma (paternal) (Tw); (dialect) mother; nurse; amah; (Manchu) father
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Example Sentences
1
Mother wants you to go to her.
2
No one in my family can touch my mother in cooking.
3
Maybe if we butter up mother, she' ll let us go to the movies.
4
Go away, and play on the stairs till father and mother be ready!
5
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He had died that morning, but because I had an A-level drama exam in the evening no one told me what had happened until much later, when I was back at home with my mum.