母
mǔ HSK3

mother

母 mǔ
female adjective
denoting the female of an animal species

农场里有几只母牛。

nóng​chǎng lǐ yǒu jǐ zhī mǔ niú.

There are several cows on the farm.

origin noun
the origin, source, or parent of something

失败乃成功之母。

shī​bài nǎi chéng​gōng zhī mǔ.

Failure is the mother of success.

mother verb
one's mother or an elderly female relative

他自幼丧母，是由父亲独自一人拉扯大的。

tā zì​yòu sàng​mǔ, shì yóu fù​qīn dú​zì yī rén lā​che dà de.

He lost his mother as a child and was raised solely by his father.

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