妈妈 媽媽 mā ma mama / mommy / mother / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] syn 母亲 母親 mǔ qīn mother / also pr. [mu3 qin5] / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 大方 dà fāng expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea syn 珍珠 zhēn zhū pearl (CL:顆|颗[ke1],粒[li4]) / (fig.) teardrop / tear syn 阿姨 ā yí maternal aunt / step-mother / childcare worker / nursemaid / woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 舅舅 jiù jiu mother's brother / maternal uncle (informal) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 外公 wài gōng (coll.) mother's father / maternal grandfather syn 姥姥 lǎo lao (coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother syn 伯母 bó mǔ wife of father's elder brother / aunt / (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 母语 母語 mǔ yǔ native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language 岳母 yuè mǔ wife's mother, mother-in-law syn 婆媳 pó xí mother-in-law and daughter-in-law 掌上明珠 zhǎng shàng míng zhū lit. a pearl in the palm (idiom) / fig. beloved person (esp. daughter) syn 家母 jiā mǔ (polite) my mother syn 待产 待產 dài chǎn (of an expectant mother) to be in labor syn 父母 fù mǔ father and mother / parents syn 大地 dà dì earth / mother earth syn 婆婆 pó po husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma syn 明月 míng yuè bright moon / refers to 夜明珠, a legendary pearl that can glow in the dark / CL:輪|轮[lun2] syn 老妈 老媽 lǎo mā mother / mom 明珠 míng zhū pearl / jewel (of great value) 珠江 zhū jiāng Pearl River (Guangdong) 老太太 lǎo tài tai elderly lady (respectful) / esteemed mother / CL:位[wei4] syn 母亲节 母親節 mǔ qīn jié Mother's Day 外婆 wài pó (coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother syn 珠三角 zhū sān jiǎo Pearl River Delta 母子 mǔ zǐ mother and child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest 娘娘 niáng niang queen / empress / imperial concubine / Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West / mother / aunt syn 母女 mǔ nǚ mother and daughter / mother-daughter 珠子 zhū zi pearl / bead / CL:粒[li4],顆|颗[ke1] syn 所生 suǒ shēng parents (father and mother) 祖母 zǔ mǔ father's mother / paternal grandmother syn 老娘 lǎo niáng my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife syn 母猪 母豬 mǔ zhū sow / mother pig 母体 母體 mǔ tǐ (zoology, medicine) mother's body / (chemistry etc) parent / matrix / (statistics) population / parent population 珠江三角洲 zhū jiāng sān jiǎo zhōu Pearl River Delta (PRD) 姨妈 姨媽 yí mā (coll.) mother's sister / maternal aunt syn 珍珠港 zhēn zhū gǎng Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) 珍珠奶茶 zhēn zhū nǎi chá pearl milk tea / tapioca milk tea / bubble milk tea 老奶奶 lǎo nǎi nai (coll.) father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother / respectful form of address for an old woman syn 二老 èr lǎo mother and father / parents syn 泛珠三角 fàn zhū sān jiǎo Pan-Pearl River delta / The nine provinces of Southern China around Guangzhou and the Pearl River delta / South China 阿婆 ā pó granny / mother-in-law syn 阿妈 阿媽 ā mā grandma (paternal) (Tw) / (dialect) mother / nurse / amah / (Manchu) father syn 丈母娘 zhàng mǔ niáng wife's mother / mother-in-law syn 生母 shēng mǔ natural mother / birth mother syn 小姨 xiǎo yí mother's youngest sister / wife's younger sister / sister-in-law 慈母 cí mǔ warm, caring mother syn 贤妻良母 賢妻良母 xián qī liáng mǔ a good wife and loving mother 干妈 乾媽 gān mā adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) syn 西王母 xī wáng mǔ Xi Wangmu, Queen Mother of the West, keeper of the peaches of immortality / popularly known as 王母娘娘 syn 养母 養母 yǎng mǔ foster mother / adoptive mother syn 舅父 jiù fù mother's brother / maternal uncle syn 外祖父 wài zǔ fù maternal grandfather (i.e. mother's father) syn 璎珞 瓔珞 yīng luò jade or pearl necklace 大姨 dà yí aunt (mother's eldest sister) / (respectful term of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) syn 代孕 dài yùn to serve as a surrogate mother / surrogacy 外祖母 wài zǔ mǔ mother's mother / maternal grandmother syn 马利亚 馬利亞 mǎ lì yà Maria (name) / Mary, mother of Jesus Christ 隔山 gé shān half-sibling relationship / brothers with different mother / step- 月嫂 yuè sǎo woman hired to take care of a newborn child and its mother in the month after childbirth 姨父 yí fu husband of mother's sister / uncle syn 令堂 lìng táng (honorific) your mother syn 姨夫 yí fu mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister syn 舅母 jiù mǔ wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife syn 姨丈 yí zhàng mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister syn 火龙果 火龍果 huǒ lóng guǒ red pitaya / dragon fruit / dragon pearl fruit (genus Hylocereus) 大姨妈 大姨媽 dà yí mā mother's eldest sister (older than one's mother) / (coll.) (euphemism) Aunt Flo (i.e. menstrual period) 母机 母機 mǔ jī machine tool / mother ship syn 助产 助產 zhù chǎn to help a mother give birth 小阿姨 xiǎo ā yí auntie, youngest of sisters in mother's family 六亲 六親 liù qīn six close relatives, namely: father 父[fu4], mother 母[mu3], older brothers 兄[xiong1], younger brothers 弟[di4], wife 妻[qi1], male children 子[zi3] / one's kin syn 姨母 yí mǔ mother's sister / maternal aunt syn 义母 義母 yì mǔ adoptive mother syn 圣母玛利亚 聖母瑪利亞 shèng mǔ mǎ lì yà Mary (mother of Jesus) 宗主国 宗主國 zōng zhǔ guó suzerain state / mother country (of a colony) 赛珍珠 賽珍珠 sài zhēn zhū Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American writer known for her novels on Asian cultures, Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize laureate 曾祖母 zēng zǔ mǔ father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother syn 灵渠 靈渠 líng qú Lingqu, canal in Xing'an county 興安|兴安[Xing1 an1], Guangxi, built in 214 BC to link the Yangtze 長江|长江[Chang2 Jiang1] to the Pearl River 珠江[Zhu1 jiang1] 母 mǔ mother / elderly female relative / origin / source / (of animals) female syn 王太后 wáng tài hòu Queen Dowager (in Europe) / widowed queen / Queen mother 安德海 ān dé hǎi An Dehai (-1869), the Qing equivalent of Rasputin, all-powerful court eunuch with the dowager empress Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4], executed in 1869 by her rival Empress Mother Empress Dowager Ci'an 慈安皇太后 妈 媽 mā ma / mom / mother syn 薏苡 yì yǐ Job's tears plant (Coix lacryma-jobi) / Chinese pearl barley 丈母 zhàng mǔ wife's mother / mother-in-law syn 姑 gū paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary) syn 奶 嬭 nǎi mother / variant of 奶[nai3] syn 珠 zhū bead / pearl / CL:粒[li4],顆|颗[ke1] syn 婆 pó (bound form) grandmother / (bound form) matron / (bound form) mother-in-law / (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship) syn 玑 璣 jī (literary) baroque pearl / irregular pearl 姨 yí mother's sister / aunt syn 恃 shì (bound form) to rely on / (literary) one's mother syn 珥 ěr pearl or jade earring syn 妗 jìn wife of mother's brother syn 獍 jìng a mythical animal that eats its mother 妣 bǐ deceased mother 