母
mǔ HSK3

mother

母 mǔ
mother noun
mother; female parent
source noun
(bound form) source; origin; something that yields or produces other things
female adjective
female (of animals)

从前，有一只母鸭。

cóng​qián, yǒu yī zhī mǔ yā.

Once upon a time there was a mother duck.

nut
(bound form) nut (to hold a bolt); the female or larger part of a matching pair of objects
female elder
(bound form) female relative of an older generation; elderly woman
surname
a Chinese surname

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Antonym

Frequency
Character
Written text
565th most common 369.3 per million
Movie subtitles
443rd most common 332.1 per million appears in 66% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
31.6 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
52.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+6BCD

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