(mā) - mom (short form) in Mandarin
māTraditional: 媽
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Translation
mom (short form)
Word origin
妈 (mā) 'mum' is a phono-semantic compound: the 女 (woman) radical gives the meaning and 马 (mǎ) supplies the sound. The traditional form 媽 uses the full 馬.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 女 (woman, meaning) + 马/馬 (mǎ, phonetic)
Stroke order
妈
Examples
，。
Mom, I'm back.
，。
Mom, it's time to eat.
。
My mom is not home.
，？
Mum, what are we having for dinner tonight?
。
I help Mum cook.
妈 (mā) means mom (short form). It is used as a noun in everyday Mandarin speech.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 妈.
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