媽
See also: 妈
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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
Related characters
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 | |
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simp. | 妈 |
Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (馬) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
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
Definitions
媽
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 媽媽 (“mum; mother”) [map]
Dialectal synonyms of 媽媽 (“mum (non-face-to-face)”) [map]
Compounds
Descendants
- → Thai: ม้า (máa)
Japanese
Compounds
- 阿媽 (ama)
- 阿媽港 (amakō)
Korean
Vietnamese
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