妈

Translingual

Etymology

Radical: 女 + Phonetic: 马

Han character

妈 (radical 38 女+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 女弓女一 (VNVM), composition ⿰女马)

1. mother, mama

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 256, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1029, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5988

Cantonese

Hanzi

妈 (traditional 媽, jyutping maa1, Yale ma1)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

妈 (traditional 媽, pinyin mā (ma1), Wade-Giles ma¹)

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Compounds

• (vulgar) 他妈的