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Trad. 韻母
- the final of a Chinese syllable (the component of a syllable remaining after removal of the initial consonant, if any, and the tone, e.g. the final of "niáng" is "iang")
- father's wife (term used by the children of a concubine to address their father's primary wife)
Trad. 聲母
- the initial consonant of a Chinese syllable
- the phonetic component of a phono-semantic compound character (e.g. the component 青[qing1] in 清[qing1])
- (historical) form of address used by an emperor or imperial children for their mother (the empress or the empress dowager)
- (historical) the empress dowager (as a title or form of reference)
- mother and child
- parent and subsidiary (companies)
- principal and interest
Trad. 母湯
- (Tw) (slang) don't; must not; won't do (from Taiwanese 毋通, Tai-lo pr. [m̄-thang], similar to Mandarin 不要[bu4 yao4] or 不行[bu4 xing2])
Trad. 母線
- generating line
- generatrix (in geometry)
- bus (in electronics)
- bus bar
Trad. 母雞
- hen
- don't know (humorous slang mimicking Cantonese 唔知, Jyutping: m4 zi1)
Trad. 母體
- (zoology, medicine) mother's body
- (chemistry etc) parent
- matrix
- (statistics) population
- parent population
- wife of father's elder brother
- aunt
- (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother)
- CL:個|个[ge4]
- mother and son
- interest and capital
- combination of a large object and a smaller one of the same type
Trad. 零聲母
- (Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant)
- (neologism c. 2017) (slang) kindly, indulgent smile (usu. on the face of a woman)
Trad. 字母詞
- word that contains one or more letters of an alphabet (e.g. HSK, PK, WTO, PO文, PM2.5, γ射線|γ射线[γ she4 xian4])
Trad. 母親河
- lifeline river; river regarded as the cradle of a civilization
- Xi Wangmu, Queen Mother of the West, keeper of the peaches of immortality
- popularly known as 王母娘娘
Trad. 鼻韻母
- (of Chinese pronunciation) a vowel followed by a nasal consonant
Trad. 大寫字母
- capital letters
- uppercase letters
- (Tw) serving chopsticks and serving spoons used in communal dining to promote hygiene
Trad. 燈塔水母
- immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii)
Trad. 炸彈之母
- Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB), or Mother of All Bombs, a powerful American bomb
Trad. 朝鮮字母
- hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet
- Korean letters
Trad. 航空母艦
- aircraft carrier (CL:艘[sou1])
- (fig.) juggernaut
- in place of sb's parents
- in loco parentis (law)
- another name for Xi Wangmu 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
- (Tw) surrogacy
- surrogate pregnancy
- surrogate mother
- the people one depends upon for one's livelihood
- one's bread and butter
Trad. 母胎單身
- never been in a romantic relationship
Trad. 韓文字母
- hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet; Korean letters
Trad. 同母異父
- (of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers
- half (brother or sister)
- like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor
Trad. 同父異母
- (of siblings) having the same father but different mothers
- half (brother or sister)
- (zoology) Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis)
- Nicodemus, prominent Jew of the time of Christ, mentioned in the Gospel of John
Trad. 巴黎聖母院
- Notre-Dame Cathedral (Paris, France)
Trad. 西里爾字母
- Cyrillic alphabet
- Cyrillic letters
Trad. 聖母升天節
- Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Christian festival on 15th August)
Trad. 聖母瑪利亞
- Mary (mother of Jesus)
Trad. 撒母耳記上
- First book of Samuel
Trad. 撒母耳記下
- Second book of Samuel
- thirty six initial consonants of Song phonetic theory
- mother-to-infant transmission
Trad. 核動力航空母艦
- nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
Trad. 失敗是成功之母
- Failure is the mother of success.
Trad. 航空母艦戰鬥群
- carrier-based vanguard group (CBVG)
- naval battle group led by an aircraft carrier