妈妈(mā ma): mama
mama
Character breakdown
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Word information
- Pinyin
- mā ma
- Meaning
- mama
- HSK level
- HSK 1
- Characters
- 2
- Traditional
- 媽媽
Appears in lessons
妈妈 is taught in these textbook lessons.
Example sentences
How 妈妈 is used in everyday Chinese — the speaker reads the whole sentence.
这是我的妈妈。
zhè shì wǒ de mā ma
This is my mother.
妈妈比爸爸大,
mā ma bǐ bà ba dà
Mom is older than Dad.
Related words
Common words sharing a character with 妈妈 — tap one to open its word page.
father's elder brother's wife
adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
wet nurse
(coll.) father's married sister
(coll.) mother's sister
mommy (loanword)
Matsu, name of a sea goddess still widely worshipped on the SE China coast and in SE Asia
a mom (mother of a young child)
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