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

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

Related characters

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

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

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


Note:
  • maa1 - mother;
  • maa4 - alternative form of (, “paternal grandmother”);
  • maa2 - maid;
  • maa5 - "Mazu", particularly in 媽祖妈祖.
Note:
  • ma1/ma5 - "mother" or "female elder member in the family" (ma5 - more common form);
  • ma2 - "paternal grandmother" (阿媽阿妈) or "maternal grandmother" (外媽外妈).

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter muX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/muoX/
Pan
Wuyun
/muoX/
Shao
Rongfen
/moX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mɔX/
Li
Rong
/moX/
Wang
Li
/muX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/muoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
mou5
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 8725
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*maːʔ/

Definitions

  1. mom; mum: an affectionate term for a mother
      ―  Wǒ de ya!  ―  Oh my God!
  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) mare; female horse

Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

  • Thai: ม้า (máa)

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. mother

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

(ma) (hangeul , revised ma, McCune–Reischauer ma)

  1. mother
  2. grandmother

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: mụ, , , mợ, ma

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