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huà​dí

model mother

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画荻 畫荻 huà​dí
model mother
(literary) an exemplary mother or a good female teacher; used to praise a mother's devotion to her children's education. Based on the story of Ouyang Xiu's mother, who taught him to write using a reed stalk as a pen.

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