grandma (paternal) (Tw); (dialect) mother; nurse; amah; (Manchu) father
trad. 阿媽
Also written 阿媽【ā mā】
Characters in this word
2阿
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prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity, used in transliteration, (bound form) Afghanistan (abbr. for 阿富汗[A1 fu4 han4]), (bound form) Albania (abbr. for 阿爾巴尼亞|阿尔巴尼亚[A1 er3 ba1 ni2 ya4]), (bound form) Algeria (abbr. for 阿爾及利亞|阿尔及利亚[A1 er3 ji2 li4 ya4]), (bound form) Argentina (abbr. for 阿根廷[A1 gen1 ting2]), also pr. [a4]
- Pinyin
- ā
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 1011 of 2500
妈
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ma, mom, mother
- Pinyin
- mā
- Traditional
- 媽
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 267 of 2500