干娘 gānniáng godmother Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 干娘 乾娘 gānniáng godmother godmother or adoptive mother; a woman one recognizes as a mother figure through a traditional ceremony rather than legal adoption ma'am (literary) a respectful way to address an older woman in traditional novels Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.227 per million Cross-References Classifier 个 gè位 wèiSame as 干妈 gānmāSynonym 义母 yìmǔ谊母 yìmǔ Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
干娘 乾娘 gānniáng godmother godmother or adoptive mother; a woman one recognizes as a mother figure through a traditional ceremony rather than legal adoption ma'am (literary) a respectful way to address an older woman in traditional novels Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.227 per million Cross-References Classifier 个 gè位 wèiSame as 干妈 gānmāSynonym 义母 yìmǔ谊母 yìmǔ Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)