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媽

媽

See also: 妈

Translingual

Han character

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

References

  • KangXi: page 268, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6590
  • Dae Jaweon: page 535, character 40
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1070, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+5ABD

Chinese

trad. 媽
simp. 妈

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (馬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
馬 *mraːʔ
碼 *mraːʔ
罵 *mraːʔ, *mraːs
鷌 *mraːʔ
鰢 *mraːʔ
瑪 *mraːʔ
榪 *mraːs
傌 *mraːs
禡 *mraːs
媽 *maːʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *maːʔ) : semantic 女 + phonetic 馬 ‎(OC *mraːʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 媽
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 莫補切
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		 mǔ
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 媽
Reading # 1/1
No. 8725
Phonetic
component		 馬
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*maːʔ/

Definitions

媽

  1. mom; mum: an affectionate term for a mother
  2. (usually with qualifier) other older female relatives or house-servants

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 媽媽 (“mum (face-to-face)”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 母親
Mandarin Beijing 媽媽、媽、娘
Taiwan 媽媽、媽
Tianjin 媽媽、媽
Jinan 媽、娘
Xi'an 媽
Wuhan 姆媽、媽媽
Chengdu 媽媽、媽
Yangzhou 媽媽、姆媽
Hefei 媽、媽爺
Cantonese Guangzhou 阿媽、媽媽
Hong Kong 媽咪、阿媽、媽媽
Yangjiang 阿媽、阿娘
Gan Nanchang 姆媽
Jin Taiyuan 媽
Min Dong Fuzhou 依媽、依奶
Min Nan Quanzhou 阿母、母仔、阿娘
Xiamen 阿母、阿母仔、母仔、阿媽、阿娘
Zhangzhou 阿母、母仔
Taipei 阿母、阿娘、媽媽
Kaohsiung khà-sàng、阿母仔
Tainan o͘-khà-sàng、阿母、俺娘仔、娘嬭
Taichung 媽媽、阿母
Yilan 阿母、阿娘
Lukang 阿母、阿娘、姨仔
Sanxia 阿母、阿娘、姨仔
Kinmen 俺娘仔
Magong 阿母
Hsinchu 媽媽、阿娘、阿母
Malaysia 阿媽、媽媽
Chaozhou 阿媽、阿娘、阿姈
Wu Shanghai 媽媽、姆媽
Suzhou 姆媽
Wenzhou 阿媽、阿奶、奶
Xiang Changsha 媽媽、姆媽
Shuangfeng 姆媽
Dialectal synonyms of 媽媽 (“mum (non-face-to-face)”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 母親
Mandarin Beijing 媽媽、媽、娘
Taiwan 媽媽、媽
Tianjin 媽媽、媽
Jinan 媽、娘
Xi'an 媽
Wuhan 姆媽、媽媽
Chengdu 媽媽、媽
Yangzhou 媽媽、姆媽
Hefei 媽、媽爺
Cantonese Guangzhou 老母
Hong Kong 老母、阿媽、媽咪
Yangjiang 阿奶
Gan Nanchang 姆媽、娘
Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian) 阿姆、哀仔
Liudui (S. Sixian) 阿姆、唔媽、哀仔
Hsinchu (Hailu) 阿姆、哀仔
Dongshi (Dabu) 阿姆、細阿妹、哀
Zhuolan (Raoping) 阿姆、哀仔
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 阿依、哀
Jin Taiyuan 媽媽、媽
Min Dong Fuzhou 娘奶
Min Nan Quanzhou 老母、阿娘
Xiamen 老母、娘嬭、阿娘
Zhangzhou 老母、娘嬭
Taipei 老母
Kaohsiung 老母
Tainan 老母
Taichung 老母、媽媽
Yilan 老母
Lukang 老母
Sanxia 老母
Kinmen 老母、俺母
Magong 老母
Hsinchu 老母
Chaozhou 阿嬡
Wu Shanghai 娘
Suzhou 娘
Wenzhou 阿媽、阿奶
Xiang Changsha 媽媽、娘、姆媽、娘老子
Shuangfeng 姆媽、娘

Compounds

  • 媽媽令兒／妈妈令儿
  • 媽媽教室／妈妈教室
  • 媽媽樂／妈妈乐
  • 媽媽論兒／妈妈论儿
  • 媽媽頭／妈妈头
  • 媽子／妈子
  • 媽祖／妈祖 (Māzǔ)
  • 媽祖婆／妈祖婆
  • 媽祖生／妈祖生
  • 媽祖誕辰／妈祖诞辰
  • 嬤嬤媽／嬷嬷妈
  • 小媽兒／小妈儿
  • 小老媽／小老妈
  • 後媽／后妈
  • 星媽／星妈
  • 未婚媽媽／未婚妈妈
  • 死爹哭媽／死爹哭妈
  • 爹媽／爹妈 (diēmā)
  • 移民媽媽／移民妈妈
  • 罵爺罵媽／骂爷骂妈
  • 老媽／老妈 (lǎomā)
  • 老媽子／老妈子 (lǎomāzi)
  • 老阿媽／老阿妈
  • 舅媽／舅妈 (jiùmā)
  • 觀音媽／观音妈
  • 道媽媽子／道妈妈子
  • 阿媽／阿妈 (āmā)
  • 陳媽媽／陈妈妈

Japanese

Kanji

媽

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. mother

Readings

Korean

Hanja

媽 • ‎(ma) (hangeul 마, revised ma, McCune-Reischauer ma)

  1. mother
  2. grandmother

Vietnamese

Han character

媽 (mụ, má, mã, mợ, ma)

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