媽

See also: 妈
媽 U+5ABD, 媽
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5ABD
← 媼
[U+5ABC]
CJK Unified Ideographs 媾 →
[U+5ABE]

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

  • 𢢷

References

  • KangXi: 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

trad. 媽
simp. 妈

Glyph origin

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation


Note:
  • maa1 - mother;
  • maa4 - alternative form of 嫲 (má, “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 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
Baxter muX
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
mou5
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
    我的媽呀!/我的妈呀!  ―  Wǒ de mā 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

Compounds

Descendants

  • → Thai: ม้า (máa)

Japanese

Kanji

媽

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. mother

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. mother
  2. grandmother

Vietnamese

Han character

媽: Hán Nôm readings: mụ, má, mã, mợ, ma

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