姆
mmǔ HSK7

woman looking after children

姆 m frequency
mother noun
used in 姆妈 m​mā, meaning mother

姆妈，我回来了。

m mā, wǒ huí​lai le.

Ma, I'm back.

姆 mǔ
nanny noun
a woman employed to care for children or perform domestic work, typically used in the compound for nursemaid

他们家请了一位保姆来帮忙照顾刚出生的小宝宝。

tā​men jiā qǐng le yī wèi bǎo mǔ lái bāng​máng zhào​gu gāng chū​shēng de xiǎo​bǎo​bǎo.

Their family hired a nanny to help take care of the newborn baby.

tutor noun
a female teacher or governess in ancient times

姆师在古代宫廷中负责教导年幼的皇族礼仪。

mǔ​shī zài gǔ​dài gōng​tíng zhōng fù​zé jiào​dǎo nián​yòu de huáng​zú lǐ​yí.

A governess in the ancient imperial court was responsible for teaching etiquette to young royalty.

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,061st most common 143.7 per million
Movie subtitles
647th most common 210.7 per million appears in 26% of films
Word
Written text
37.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+59C6

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)