妈 - Mandarin word #239

妈

mā

Traditional: 媽

HSK 1

#239 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

mom (short form)

Stroke order

妈

，。

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.

爱

to love, love

爸爸

dad, father (informal)

父亲

father (formal/written)

孩子

child, children

妈妈

mom, mother (informal)

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 妈.

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

This word is part of lesson 5.