mǔ
woman looking after children
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 母 represents the sound.
Definitions
Most common words with 姆
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
(old) female tutor | ||
nanny | ||
Saddam | ||
Tom (name) | ||
James (name) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*məʔ | muwX | mǔ | female teacher in harem |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 26.0772% of movies
647th most common character in movies
1061st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+59C6 |
Sources
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