母子

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Chinese

female; mother
child; son; (noun suffix)
child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
 
simp. and trad.
(母子) 		母 子

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 母 子
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 侯 (137) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 莫厚切 即里切
Baxter muwX tsiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/məuX/ /t͡sɨX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/məuX/ /t͡sɨX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/məuX/ /t͡sieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/məwX/ /t͡sɨX/
Li
Rong 		/muX/ /t͡siəX/
Wang
Li 		/məuX/ /t͡sĭəX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/mə̯uX/ /t͡siX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mǒu zǐ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mau5 zi2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 母 子
Reading # 1/1 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		mǔ zǐ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ muwX › ‹ tsiX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*məʔ/ (? or *mˁoʔ) /*tsəʔ/
English mother child; gentleman, master

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 母 子
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 9288 17857
Phonetic
component 		母 子
Rime
group 		之 之
Rime
subdivision 		0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		母 子
Old
Chinese 		/*mɯʔ/ /*ʔslɯʔ/

Noun

母子

  1. mother and son; mother and child
  2. parent and subsidiary companies
  3. principal and interest

Synonyms

  • (mother and child):
Dialectal synonyms of 母子 (“mother and son; mother and child”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 母子
Jiaoliao Mandarin Yantai (Muping) 娘兒伙家
Central Plains Mandarin Wanrong 娘母倆
Xi'an 娘們倆
Xining 娘兒兩個
Xuzhou 娘倆, 娘倆兒
Lanyin Mandarin Yinchuan 娘倆
Ürümqi 娘兒兩個, 娘兒倆兒, 娘母兩個
Southwestern Mandarin Liuzhou 兩娘崽, 兩子娘
Jianghuai Mandarin Nanjing 母子兩個, 娘兒兩個
Yangzhou 母子兩個, 娘兒兩個
Cantonese Guangzhou 兩仔乸
Hong Kong 兩仔乸
Gan Pingxiang 兩娘崽
Hakka Meixian 兩子哀
Yudu 兩母子
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 兩子哀
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 兩子哀
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 兩子哀
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 兩子哀
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 兩子哀
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 兩子哀
Huizhou Jixi 娘兒
Jin Taiyuan 娘母倆
Xinzhou 娘母兩個
Northern Min Jian'ou 兩囝奶
Eastern Min Fuzhou 娘嬭囝
Southern Min Xiamen 母仔囝, 母囝
Quanzhou 母仔囝, 母囝
Zhangzhou 母仔囝, 母囝
Tainan 母仔囝 GT
Singapore (Hokkien) 母仔囝
Puxian Min Putian 娘嬭囝
Wu Shanghai 娘兩家頭, 娘兩個
Shanghai (Chongming) 娘兩個
Suzhou 娘兒子兩家頭
Danyang 母子兩個
Hangzhou 娘同兒子
Wenzhou 娘兒
Jinhua 娘兒兩個
Xiang Changsha 兩娘崽

Derived terms

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
母 子
はは
Grade: 2 		こ
Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Noun

母(はは)子(こ) • (hahako) 

  1. mother and child
  2. clipping of 母子草 (hahakogusa, “cudweed, Pseudognaphalium affine”)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
母 子
ぼ
Grade: 2 		し
Grade: 1
kan'yōon on'yomi

Noun

母(ぼ)子(し) • (boshi) 

  1. mother and child
See also

Korean

Hanja in this term
母子

Noun

母子 • (moja) (hangeul 모자)

  1. hanja form? of 모자 (“mother and son”)
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