mǔ
mother
Pictograph of a woman kneeling, with two dots representing the two nipples that mothers use to feed their young.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 母
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
mother | ||
parents | ||
mother | ||
letter (of the alphabet) | ||
father's mother |
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*məʔ (? or *mˤoʔ) | muwX | mǔ | mother |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 66.1861% of movies
443rd most common character in movies
565th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+6BCD |
Shuowen | “母,牧也。从女,象褱子形。一曰象乳子也。” |
Sources
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