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 父母 fù mǔ father and mother / parents syn 婴儿 嬰兒 yīng ér infant / baby / CL:個|个[ge4] / lead (Pb) 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 祖母 zǔ mǔ father's mother / paternal grandmother syn 外婆 wài pó (coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother syn 传达 傳達 chuán dá to pass on / to convey / to relay / to transmit / transmission syn 姨妈 姨媽 yí mā (coll.) mother's sister / maternal aunt syn 老太太 lǎo tài tai elderly lady (respectful) / esteemed mother / CL:位[wei4] syn 大地 dà dì earth / mother earth syn 舅舅 jiù jiu mother's brother / maternal uncle (informal) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 传输 傳輸 chuán shū to transmit / transmission syn 外公 wài gōng (coll.) mother's father / maternal grandfather syn 婆婆 pó po husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma syn 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 老娘 lǎo niáng my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife syn 母女 mǔ nǚ mother and daughter / mother-daughter 老奶奶 lǎo nǎi nai (coll.) father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother / respectful form of address for an old woman syn 断层 斷層 duàn céng fault (geology) (CL:道[dao4]) / (fig.) gap / rupture (in the transmission of some skill) / (tomography) cross-sectional 姥姥 lǎo lao (coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother syn 生母 shēng mǔ natural mother / birth mother syn 母亲节 母親節 mǔ qīn jié Mother's Day 母子 mǔ zǐ mother and child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest 岳母 yuè mǔ wife's mother, mother-in-law syn 母体 母體 mǔ tǐ (zoology, medicine) mother's body / (chemistry etc) parent / matrix / (statistics) population / parent population 孩提 hái tí (literary) infant / young child 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 婴孩 嬰孩 yīng hái infant syn 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 收发室 收發室 shōu fā shì mail room / radio room (i.e. reception and transmission) 外祖父 wài zǔ fù maternal grandfather (i.e. mother's father) syn 母语 母語 mǔ yǔ native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language 传送带 傳送帶 chuán sòng dài conveyor belt / transmission belt 助产 助產 zhù chǎn to help a mother give birth 弃婴 棄嬰 qì yīng to abandon an infant / abandoned baby 养母 養母 yǎng mǔ foster mother / adoptive mother syn 幼儿 幼兒 yòu ér young child / infant / preschooler syn 传动 傳動 chuán dòng drive (transmission in an engine) 丈母娘 zhàng mǔ niáng wife's mother / mother-in-law syn 姨父 yí fu husband of mother's sister / uncle syn 母猪 母豬 mǔ zhū sow / mother pig 家母 jiā mǔ (polite) my mother syn 姨丈 yí zhàng mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister syn 阿婆 ā pó granny / mother-in-law syn 慈母 cí mǔ warm, caring mother syn 舅父 jiù fù mother's brother / maternal uncle syn 干妈 乾媽 gān mā adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) syn 令堂 lìng táng (honorific) your mother syn 姨母 yí mǔ mother's sister / maternal aunt syn 透射 tòu shè to transmit / transmission (of radiation through a medium) / passage 传输线 傳輸線 chuán shū xiàn transmission line 变速箱 變速箱 biàn sù xiāng gearbox / transmission 输电 輸電 shū diàn electricity transmission / to transmit electricity 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 舅母 jiù mǔ wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife syn 圣婴 聖嬰 shèng yīng El Niño (meteorology) / Holy Infant (Christianity) 二老 èr lǎo mother and father / parents syn 姨夫 yí fu mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister syn 母机 母機 mǔ jī machine tool / mother ship syn 阿妈 阿媽 ā mā grandma (paternal) (Tw) / (dialect) mother / nurse / amah / (Manchu) father syn 传输率 傳輸率 chuán shū lǜ transmission rate 婆媳 pó xí mother-in-law and daughter-in-law 乳名 rǔ míng infant name / pet name for a child syn 传动带 傳動帶 chuán dòng dài transmission belt syn 大方 dà fāng expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea syn 老妈 老媽 lǎo mā mother / mom 数据传输 數據傳輸 shù jù chuán shū data transmission 所生 suǒ shēng parents (father and mother) 自动挡 自動擋 zì dòng dǎng automatic transmission / auto gear shift 自动档 自動檔 zì dòng dàng automatic transmission (gear change) 小姨 xiǎo yí mother's youngest sister / wife's younger sister / sister-in-law 贤妻良母 賢妻良母 xián qī liáng mǔ a good wife and loving mother 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 传动系统 傳動系統 chuán dòng xì tǒng transmission system / power drive 代孕 dài yùn to serve as a surrogate mother / surrogacy 待产 待產 dài chǎn (of an expectant mother) to be in labor syn 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 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) 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 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) 妈 媽 mā ma / mom / mother syn 母 mǔ mother / elderly female relative / origin / source / (of animals) female syn 奶 嬭 nǎi mother / variant of 奶[nai3] syn 婆 pó (bound form) grandmother / (bound form) matron / (bound form) mother-in-law / (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship) syn 婴 嬰 yīng infant / baby syn 哑 啞 yā (onom.) sound of cawing / sound of infant learning to talk / variant of 呀[ya1] syn 姨 yí mother's sister / aunt syn 姑 gū paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary) syn 曾祖母 zēng zǔ mǔ father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother syn 瑶 瑤 yáo jade / precious stone / mother-of-pearl / nacre / precious / used a complementary honorific 囟 xìn fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull) 囟门 囟門 xìn mén fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull) 传动比 傳動比 chuán dòng bǐ transmission ratio / gear ratio 