令慈 lìngcí your esteemed mother Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 令 lìng [honorific] (bound form) a polite prefix used to refer to someone else's relatives慈 cí mother (bound form) mother; used in formal or literary terms like 家慈 jiācí for one's own mother or 令慈 lìngcí for someone else's mother