姆 (mǔ)

nanny/matron

How 姆 is written

Strokes
8
Radical
女 — woman
Traditional
姆
Simplified
姆 (unchanged)

Common words using 姆

保姆 bǎomǔ
nanny; housekeeper
姆媽 mǔmā
mom; mother (dialect)
弗洛姆 fúluòmǔ
Fromm (psychoanalyst)
朗姆酒 lǎngmǔjiǔ
rum (loanword)
薩達姆 sàdámǔ
Saddam
阿姆斯特丹 āmǔsītèdān
Amsterdam, capital of Netherlands
阿薩姆 āsàmǔ
Assam, India
克里姆林宮 kèlǐmǔlíngōng
the Kremlin
奧姆真理教 àomǔzhēnlǐjiào
Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese death cult responsible for the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
姆指 mǔzhǐ
thumb
尼姆 nímǔ
Nîmes (city in France)
朗姆 lǎngmǔ
rum (beverage) (loanword)

姆 in a sentence

他們請了保姆來照顧小孩。

Tāmen qǐngle bǎomǔ lái zhàogù xiǎohái.

“They hired a nanny to take care of the child.”

How common is 姆?

姆 is the 1,059th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 90.1% of all running text.

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