母 : Mother

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Components:

毋

mother

On 'yomi:

ボ(bo)

Kun 'yomi:

はは(haha) も(mo)

Strokes:	5
Radical:	毋 (80)
Usage Rating:	570

JLPT:	N5
old JLPT:	4
Grade:	2

Unicode:	06bcd
jis208:	42-76

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母 Usage examples

韻母(いんぼ)	final (Chinese)
醸母(じょうぼ)	leaven, yeast
頼母子講(たのもしこう)	mutual financing association
同母姉(どうぼし)	sisters of the same mother, uterine sisters
亡き母(なきはは)	dead mother
母鳥(ははどり)	mother bird
母の愛(ははのあい)	maternal love
母材(ぼざい)	welding base metal
母子とも(ぼしとも) 母子共(ぼしとも)	both mother and child
母音性(ぼいんせい)	vocalic
母語話者(ぼごわしゃ)	native speaker
鬼子母神(きしぼじん)	Hariti (goddess of childbirth and children)
単母音(たんぼいん)	monophthong, simple vowel
長母音(ちょうぼいん)	long vowel
花粉母細胞(かふんぼさいぼう)	pollen mother cell
短母音(たんぼいん)	short vowel
お祖母ちゃん(おばあちゃん) 御祖母ちゃん(おばあちゃん)	granny, grandma, gran, female senior-citizen
義理の母(ぎりのはは)	mother-in-law, foster mother, stepmother
御っ母さん(おっかさん)	mother (term commonly used until the end of the Meiji period), mom, mum, mama
母数(ぼすう)	(statistical) parameter
漂母皮形成(ひょうぼかわけいせい)	wrinkled hands from being in water
乳母日傘(おんばひからかさ)	(bringing up a child) with greatest care pampering (him, her) with material comforts of a rich family, (being brought up) in a hothouse atmosphere
推進母体(すいしんぼたい)	nucleus (of a project proposal, of a social movement, etc.)
酢母草(カタバミ)	family crest shaped like creeping woodsorrel
声母(せいぼ)	syllable onset
母子手帳(ぼしてちょう)	maternity health record book, mother and child health notebook
聖母マリア(せいぼマリア)	Virgin Mary
母指対向性(おやゆびたいこうせい)	ability to oppose the thumb, opposable thumb
香母酢(カボス)	kabosu (type of citrus fruit) (Citrus sphaerocarpa)
小母(おば)	(used with suffix -san or -sama) endearing term for unrelated older woman, (with suffix -san) term used by a child to address unrelated adult female
母音調和(ぼいんちょうわ)	vowel harmony
鼻母音(びぼいん)	nasal vowel