嬷 (mó): dialectal or obsolete equivalent of 媽|妈
嬷 (mó) is a Chinese character meaning “dialectal or obsolete equivalent of 媽|妈.” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 女 (semantic) and 麽 (phonetic). It ranks #4152 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 嬷 woman. Its radical form 女 (woman) appears in many related characters such as 女 (nǚ, woman), 她 (tā, she), 好 (hǎo, good).
Definitions
- dialectal or obsolete equivalent of 媽|妈
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 嬷嬷 | mó mo | (dialect) elderly lady |
| 阿嬷 | ā mā | (Tw) grandma (also used to refer to or address an elderly woman) (from Taiwanese 阿媽, Tai-lo pr. [a-má]) |
嬷 appears in 2 compound words: 50 as the first character, 50 as the last, and 0 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 嬷 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
电影《给阿嬷的情书》全球总票房目前已突破21亿元。
diàn yǐng gěi ā mó de qíng shū quán qiú zǒng piào fáng mù qián yǐ tū pò 2 1 yì yuán .
The film *A Love Letter to Grandma* has now surpassed 2.1 billion yuan in global box office revenue.
电视剧《还珠格格》里紫薇被容嬷嬷用针扎手指的画面，大概是很多 90 后的童年噩梦。
diàn shì jù hái zhū gé gé lǐ zǐ wēi bèi róng mó mó yòng zhēn zhā shǒu zhǐ de huà miàn , dà gài shì hěn duō 9 0 hòu de tóng nián è mèng .
The scene in the TV series *The Princess Returning Pearl* where Ziwei’s finger is pricked with a needle by Auntie Rong is probably a childhood nightmare for many people born in the 1990s.
《给阿嬷的情书》海外票房破1亿元。
gěi ā mó de qíng shū hǎi wài piào fáng pò 1 yì yuán .
"Love Letter to Grandma" has surpassed 100 million yuan at the overseas box office.
Character Family
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