(Tw) grandma (also used to refer to or address an elderly woman) (from Taiwanese 阿媽, Tai-lo pr. [a-má])
trad. 阿嬤
Also written 阿嬤【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
嬷
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dialectal or obsolete equivalent of 媽|妈[ma1], Taiwan pr. [ma1]
- Pinyin
- mó
- Traditional
- 嬤
- Strokes
- 17