woman looking after children

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

母 sound component

  Sound component

  

mother

Definitions

 

child's governess; matron; woman who looks after small children; (old) female tutor

Most common words with 姆
Freq.
Word
Meaning

(old) female tutor

保姆

nanny

萨达姆

Saddam

汤姆

Tom (name)

詹姆斯

James (name)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*məʔ

muwX

female teacher in harem


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 26.0772% of movies

647th most common character in movies

1061st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+59C6


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