| 母乳喂养 | [ mǔ rǔ weì yǎng ] breastfeeding |
| 母函数 | [ mǔ hán shù ] generating function (math.) |
| 母丧 | [ mǔ sāng ] the death of one's mother |
| 母弹 | [ mǔ dàn ] parent shell (of a cluster bomb) |
| 母爱 | [ mǔ aì ] maternal love |
| 母机 | [ mǔ jī ] machine tool, mother ship |
| 母权制 | [ mǔ quán zhì ] matriarchy |
| 母汤 | [ mǔ tāng ] (Tw) (slang) don't, must not, won't do, (from Taiwanese 毋通, Tai-lo pr. [m̄-thang], similar to Mandarin 不要[bu4 yao4] or 不行[bu4 xing2]) |
| 母系社会 | [ mǔ xì shè huì ] matrilineality |
| 母线 | [ mǔ xiàn ] generating line, generatrix (in geometry), bus (in electronics), bus bar |
| 母群体 | [ mǔ qún tǐ ] (statistics) population, parent population |
| 母胎单身 | [ mǔ taī dān shēn ] never been in a romantic relationship |
| 母亲 | [ mǔ qīn ] mother, also pr. [mu3 qin5], CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 母亲节 | [ mǔ qīn jié ] Mother's Day |
| 母语 | [ mǔ yǔ ] native language, mother tongue, (linguistics) parent language |
| 母质 | [ mǔ zhì ] parent material (e.g. the eroded rock making up sediment) |
| 母鸡 | [ mǔ jī ] hen, don't know (humorous slang mimicking Cantonese 唔知, Jyutping: m4 zi1) |
| 母难日 | [ mǔ nàn rì ] (old) birthday |
| 母音调和 | [ mǔ yīn hé ] vowel harmony (in phonetics) |
| 母题 | [ mǔ tí ] motif (loanword), main idea, theme |
| 母体 | [ mǔ tǐ ] (zoology, medicine) mother's body, (chemistry etc) parent, matrix, (statistics) population, parent population |
| 母党 | [ mǔ dǎng ] mother's kinfolk |
| ⇒ 儿不嫌母丑，狗不嫌家贫 | [ ér bù xián mǔ choǔ goǔ bù xián jiā pín ] a son won't abandon his mother for being ugly, just as a dog won't abandon its owner for being poor (proverb) |
| ⇒ 公母俩 | [ gōng mǔ liǎ ] husband and wife |
| ⇒ 卵母细胞 | [ luǎn mǔ xì baō ] egg cell |
| ⇒ 同母异父 | [ tóng mǔ yì fù ] (of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers, half (brother or sister) |
| ⇒ 同父异母 | [ tóng fù yì mǔ ] (of siblings) having the same father but different mothers, half (brother or sister) |
| ⇒ 单韵母 | [ dān yùn mǔ ] simple finals |
| ⇒ 在家靠父母，出门靠朋友 | [ zaì jiā kaò fù mǔ chū mén kaò péng you ] one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom) |
| ⇒ 大写字母 | [ dà xiě zì mǔ ] capital letters, uppercase letters |
| ⇒ 失败是成功之母 | [ shī baì shì chéng gōng zhī mǔ ] Failure is the mother of success. |
| ⇒ 婶母 | [ shěn mǔ ] wife of father's younger brother, aunt |
| ⇒ 子不嫌母丑，狗不嫌家贫 | [ zǐ bù xián mǔ choǔ goǔ bù xián jiā pín ] see 兒不嫌母醜，狗不嫌家貧|儿不嫌母丑，狗不嫌家贫[er2 bu4 xian2 mu3 chou3 , gou3 bu4 xian2 jia1 pin2] |
| ⇒ 子母弹 | [ zǐ mǔ dàn ] (military) cluster bomb, shrapnel |
| ⇒ 子母炮弹 | [ zǐ mǔ paò dàn ] artillery cluster bomb |
| ⇒ 子母炸弹 | [ zǐ mǔ zhà dàn ] cluster bomb |
| ⇒ 字母词 | [ zì mǔ cí ] word that contains one or more letters of an alphabet (e.g. HSK, PK, WTO, PO文, PM2.5, γ射線|γ射线[γ she4 xian4]) |
| ⇒ 字母顺序 | [ zì mǔ shùn xù ] alphabetical order |
| ⇒ 小写字母 | [ xiě zì mǔ ] lowercase (letters) |
| ⇒ 巴黎圣母院 | [ bā lí shèng mǔ yuàn ] Notre-Dame Cathedral (Paris, France) |
| ⇒ 希腊字母 | [ xī là zì mǔ ] Greek alphabet |
| ⇒ 师母 | [ shī mǔ ] term of respect for a teacher's wife |
| ⇒ 弑母 | [ shì mǔ ] matricide, to commit matricide |
| ⇒ 后母 | [ hoù mǔ ] stepmother |
| ⇒ 从母 | [ cóng mǔ ] maternal aunt |
| ⇒ 恋母情结 | [ liàn mǔ qíng jié ] Oedipus complex |
| ⇒ 撒母耳记上 | [ sā mǔ ěr jì shàng ] First book of Samuel |
| ⇒ 撒母耳记下 | [ sā mǔ ěr jì xià ] Second book of Samuel |
| ⇒ 朝鲜字母 | [ chaó xiǎn zì mǔ ] hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet, Korean letters |
| ⇒ 核动力航空母舰 | [ hé dòng lì háng kōng mǔ jiàn ] nuclear-powered aircraft carrier |
| ⇒ 栉水母 | [ jié shuǐ mǔ ] comb jellies (Ctenophora) |
| ⇒ 水母体 | [ shuǐ mǔ tǐ ] jellyfish, medusa |
| ⇒ 炸弹之母 | [ zhà dàn zhī mǔ ] Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB), or Mother of All Bombs, a powerful American bomb |
| ⇒ 灯塔水母 | [ dēng tǎ shuǐ mǔ ] immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii) |
| ⇒ 父母亲 | [ fù mǔ qīn ] parents |
| ⇒ 父母双亡 | [ fù mǔ shuāng wáng ] to have lost both one's parents |
| ⇒ 异母 | [ yì mǔ ] (of siblings) having the same father but different mothers |
| ⇒ 白云母 | [ baí yún mǔ ] muscovite, white mica |
| ⇒ 卢恩字母 | [ lú ēn zì mǔ ] rune |
| ⇒ 祖母绿 | [ zǔ mǔ lǜ ] emerald |
| ⇒ 继母 | [ jì mǔ ] stepmother |
| ⇒ 继父母 | [ jì fù mǔ ] step-parents |
| ⇒ 罗马字母 | [ luó mǎ zì mǔ ] Roman letters, Roman alphabet |
| ⇒ 义母 | [ yì mǔ ] adoptive mother |
| ⇒ 义父母 | [ yì fù mǔ ] adoptive parents |
| ⇒ 圣母 | [ shèng mǔ ] the Virgin Mary |
| ⇒ 圣母 | [ shèng mǔ ] goddess |
| ⇒ 圣母升天节 | [ shèng mǔ shēng tiān jié ] Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Christian festival on 15th August) |
| ⇒ 圣母婊 | [ shèng mǔ ] (Internet slang) sanctimonious bitch |
| ⇒ 圣母峰 | [ shèng mǔ fēng ] Goddess peak (Nepalese: Sagarmatha, Sky Goddess), refers to Mt Chomolungma or Qomolangma (Tibetan), Chinese 珠穆朗瑪峰|珠穆朗玛峰, Mt Everest |
| ⇒ 圣母教堂 | [ shèng mǔ táng ] Church of Our Lady, Frauenkirche |
| ⇒ 圣母玛利亚 | [ shèng mǔ mǎ lì yà ] Mary (mother of Jesus) |
| ⇒ 声母 | [ shēng mǔ ] the initial consonant of a Chinese syllable, the phonetic component of a phono-semantic compound character (e.g. the component 青[qing1] in 清[qing1]) |
| ⇒ 航空母舰 | [ háng kōng mǔ jiàn ] aircraft carrier, CL:艘[sou1], (coll.) (fig.) sth huge, (like) a whale |
| ⇒ 航空母舰战斗群 | [ háng kōng mǔ jiàn zhàn doù qún ] carrier-based vanguard group (CBVG), naval battle group led by an aircraft carrier |
| ⇒ 螺丝母 | [ luó sī mǔ ] nut (female component of nut and bolt) |
| ⇒ 复合母音 | [ fù hé mǔ yīn ] diphthong, compound vowel |
| ⇒ 复韵母 | [ fù yùn mǔ ] compound final |
| ⇒ 西里尔字母 | [ xī lǐ ěr zì mǔ ] Cyrillic alphabet, Cyrillic letters |
| ⇒ 贝母 | [ beì mǔ ] the bulb of the fritillary (Fritillaria thunbergii) |
| ⇒ 贤妻良母 | [ xián qī liáng mǔ ] a good wife and loving mother |
| ⇒ 酿母菌 | [ niàng mǔ jūn ] yeast |
| ⇒ 云母 | [ yún mǔ ] mica |
| ⇒ 零声母 | [ líng shēng mǔ ] (Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant) |
| ⇒ 需要是发明之母 | [ xū yaò shì fā míng zhī mǔ ] Necessity is the mother of invention (European proverb). |
| ⇒ 韩文字母 | [ hán wén zì mǔ ] hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet, Korean letters |
| ⇒ 韵母 | [ yùn mǔ ] the final of a Chinese syllable (the component of a syllable remaining after removal of the initial consonant, if any, and the tone, e.g. the final of "niáng" is "iang") |
| ⇒ 养母 | [ yǎng mǔ ] foster mother, adoptive mother |
| ⇒ 喂母乳 | [ weì mǔ rǔ ] breastfeeding |
| ⇒ 首字母拚音词 | [ shoǔ zì mǔ pīn yīn cí ] acronym |
| ⇒ 首字母缩写 | [ shoǔ zì mǔ suō xiě ] acronym |
| ⇒ 鸨母 | [ baǒ mǔ ] female brothel keeper, a bawd |
| ⇒ 鼻韵母 | [ bí yùn mǔ ] (of Chinese pronunciation) a vowel followed by a nasal consonant |
