母子

Chinese

		female; mother	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
simp. and trad. (母子)		母	子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mǔzǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˇ ㄗˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁵ zi²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mû-chṳ́

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mǔzǐ [Phonetic: múzǐ]
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˇ ㄗˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mǔzǐh
    • Wade–Giles: mu³-tzŭ³
    • Yale: mǔ-dž
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muutzyy
    • Palladius: муцзы (muczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mou⁵ zi²
    • Yale: móuh jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁵ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁵ ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯¹³ t͡siː³⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 拇指 母子

• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mû-chṳ́
    • Hakka Romanization System: mu^ˊ zii^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: mu¹ zi³
    • Sinological IPA: /mu²⁴ t͡sɨ³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: muwX tsiX

Rime
Character	母	子
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	莫厚切	即里切
Baxter	muwX	tsiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/məuX/	/t͡sɨX/
Pan Wuyun	/məuX/	/t͡sɨX/
Shao Rongfen	/məuX/	/t͡sieX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məwX/	/t͡sɨX/
Li Rong	/muX/	/t͡siəX/
Wang Li	/məuX/	/t͡sĭəX/
Bernard Karlgren	/mə̯uX/	/t͡siX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mǒu	zǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mau5	zi2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*məʔ  tsəʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mɯʔ  ʔslɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	母	子
Reading #	1/1	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mǔ	zǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ muwX ›	‹ tsiX ›
Old Chinese	/*məʔ/ (? or *mˁoʔ)	/*tsəʔ/
English	mother	child; gentleman, master
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	母	子
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	9288	17857
Phonetic component	母	子
Rime group	之	之
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	母	子
Old Chinese	/*mɯʔ/	/*ʔslɯʔ/

Noun

母子

1. mother and son; mother and child
2. parent and subsidiary companies
3. principal and interest

Synonyms

• (mother and child):

edit

• 仔乸 (zai² naa²) (Cantonese)
• 兩仔乸／两仔乸 (loeng⁵ zai² naa²) (Cantonese)
• 兩娘崽／两娘崽 (lian³ nyian² zai³) (Xiang)
• 兩子哀／两子哀 (Hakka)
• 兩母囝／两母囝 (no⁶ bho² gian²) (Teochew)
• 娘兒／娘儿
• 娘兒倆／娘儿俩 (niángrliǎ)
• 娘兒們／娘儿们 (niángrmen)
• 娘嬭囝／娘奶囝 (niòng-nā̤-giāng) (Eastern Min, Puxian Min)
• 子哀 (Hakka)
• 母仔囝 (Hokkien)
• 母囝 (Hokkien, Teochew)

 

Dialectal synonyms of 母子 (“mother and son; mother and child”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		母子
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	娘兒伙家
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	娘母倆
	Xi'an	娘們倆
	Xining	娘兒兩個
	Xuzhou	娘倆, 娘倆兒
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	娘倆
	Ürümqi	娘兒兩個, 娘兒倆兒, 娘母兩個
Southwestern Mandarin	Liuzhou	兩娘崽, 兩子娘
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	母子兩個, 娘兒兩個
	Yangzhou	母子兩個, 娘兒兩個
Cantonese	Guangzhou	兩仔乸
	Hong Kong	兩仔乸
Gan	Pingxiang	兩娘崽
Hakka	Meixian	兩子哀
	Yudu	兩母子
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	兩子哀
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	兩子哀
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	兩子哀
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	兩子哀
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	兩子哀
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	兩子哀
Huizhou	Jixi	娘兒
Jin	Taiyuan	娘母倆
	Xinzhou	娘母兩個
Northern Min	Jian'ou	兩囝奶
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	娘嬭囝
Southern Min	Xiamen	母仔囝, 母囝
	Quanzhou	母仔囝, 母囝
	Zhangzhou	母仔囝, 母囝
	Tainan	母仔囝 GT
	Singapore (Hokkien)	母仔囝
Puxian Min	Putian	娘嬭囝
Wu	Shanghai	娘兩家頭, 娘兩個
	Shanghai (Chongming)	娘兩個
	Suzhou	娘兒子兩家頭
	Danyang	母子兩個
	Hangzhou	娘同兒子
	Wenzhou	娘兒
	Jinhua	娘兒兩個
Xiang	Changsha	兩娘崽

Derived terms

• 宜母子 (yímǔzǐ)

 

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
母	子
はは Grade: 2	こ Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Noun

母(はは)子(こ) • (hahako) 

1. mother and child
3. Clipping of 母子草 (hahakogusa, “cudweed, Pseudognaphalium affine”).

Derived terms

• 母子草(ハハコグサ) (hahakogusa)
• 河原母子(カワラハハコ) (kawara hahako)
• 山母子(ヤマハハコ) (yama hahako)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
母	子
ぼ Grade: 2	し Grade: 1
kan'yōon	on'yomi

Noun

母(ぼ)子(し) • (boshi) 

1. mother and child

See also

• 父子(ふし) (fushi)

Korean

Hanja in this term
母	子

Noun

母子 • (moja) (hangeul 모자)

1. hanja form^? of 모자 (“mother and son”)