媽 (mā)
mom/mother
How 媽 is written
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 女 — woman
- Traditional
- 媽
- Simplified
- 妈
Common words using 媽
- 媽媽 māma
- mama; mommy; mother
- 姨媽 yímā
- (informal) mother's sister; maternal aunt
- 媽咪 māmi
- mommy (loanword)
- 老媽 lǎomā
- mother; mom
- 乾媽 gānmā
- godmother
- 大姨媽 dàyímā
- great aunt; (slang) menstruation; period
- 大媽 dàmā
- father's elder brother's wife; aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman)
- 奶媽 nǎimā
- wet nurse
- 姆媽 mǔmā
- mom; mother (dialect)
- 姑媽 gūmā
- (coll.) father's married sister; paternal aunt
- 婆婆媽媽 pópomāmā
- kindhearted; motherly; effeminate
- 媽的 māde
- see 他媽的|他妈的[ta1 ma1 de5]
媽 in a sentence
媽，我肚子餓了！
Mā, wǒ dùzi è le!
“Mom, I'm hungry!”
How common is 媽?
媽 is the 749th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 84.1% of all running text.
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