Jump to content

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
See also:
U+5ABD, 媽
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5ABD

[U+5ABC]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5ABE]

Translingual

[edit]

Han character

[edit]

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

Derived characters

[edit]
[edit]

References

[edit]
  • 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

[edit]
trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

[edit]

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

Etymology

[edit]

Colloquial form of (OC *mɯʔ, “mother”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mow (woman, female).

Pronunciation

[edit]

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/
Bernhard
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

[edit]

  1. mom; mum: an affectionate term for a mother
      ―  Wǒ de ya!  ―  Oh my God! [Literally: Oh my Mom!]
  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

[edit]

Compounds

[edit]

Descendants

[edit]
  • Thai: ม้า (máa)

Japanese

[edit]

Kanji

[edit]

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. mother

Readings

[edit]
  • Go-on: (mo)
  • Kan-on: (bo)
  • Kan’yō-on: (ma)
  • Kun: はは (haha, )

Compounds

[edit]

Korean

[edit]

Hanja

[edit]

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

  1. mother
  2. grandmother

Vietnamese

[edit]

Han character

[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: mụ, , , mợ, ma

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.