The Chinese Radical: 母


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Meaning
mother    母

Explanation Shows 'woman' with a longer right stroke and with two dots : that are swollen breasts of a nursing (breast-feeding) woman.

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 1
mother, mom

Left: woman , right: horse (=馬 with mane, four legs and tail ㄅ)
The woman who works as hard as a horse, is my mother.  
JLPT HSK 2
every, each
měi
At top: lying person as a flat variant of , below: mother (= woman with emphasized, swollen bosom : when breast-feeding)
Persons have mothers: every!  
JLPT HSK 3
accustomed to, used to, indulge, to spoil (a child)
guàn
Left: feeling , right: to pierce 贯 (Mother's money is pierced.)
My feelings are pierced, but I get accustomed to it.  
JLPT HSK 4
mother

A variation of woman with emphasized breasts indicated by the two dots : stands for: breast-feeding
A woman with swollen breasts is a mother.  
JLPT HSK 4
regret, remorse, repentance
huǐ
Left: feeling , right: each/every (every person = has a mother ) [ = woman with emphasized, swollen bosom : when breast-feeding]
A feeling that everyone has (at times) is regret.  
JLPT HSK 4
ocean, sea
hǎi
Left: water , right: every (every person = has a mother ) [ = woman with emphasized swollen breasts : when breast-feeding]
Water is in every ocean.  
JLPT HSK 5
mother, young lady, bride
niáng
Left: woman , right: good
The woman who is good, is the mother.  
JLPT HSK 5
poison, narcotics, evil

Top: growing plant (here: vegetarian), below: mother (= woman with emphasized, swollen bosom : when breast-feeding)
Vegetarian [nutrition] for mothers can be poisoning?  
JLPT HSK 6
nanny, woman who looks after small children

Left: woman , right: mother (= woman with emphasized, swollen bosom : when breast-feeding)
This woman stand for the mother: The nanny!  
JLPT HSK 6
to pierce through, to pass through
guàn
Top: not 毋 (here: variant of mother ), bottom: money
Mother's money is pierced.  
JLPT HSK 6
to insult, to ridicule, to disgrace

Left: person , right: each/often (every person = has a mother [ = breast-feeding woman with emphasized bosom : ])
This is a person everybody wants to insult.  
JLPT HSK 6
Hey!, Hi!
hāi
Left: mouth , right: ocean, sea 海 (Water is in every ocean. [every = every person has a mother .])
A mouth like an ocean yells: Hey!  
JLPT no HSK
plum (=ume), Japanese apricot
méi
Left: tree , right: every (every person = has a mother .)
The tree for everybody is the plum tree.  
JLPT no HSK
no, don't


The woman with emphasized tits is a mother , but here striked out , thus: not.  
JLPT no HSK
(archaic) to give birth to a child, to rear

Left: every (Every person = has a mother .), right: ("newborn baby" as a child turned upside down : the child comes with head first, with amniotic fluid )
Every mother with the newborn stands for: giving birth.  
JLPT no HSK
thumb, big toe

Left: hand , right: mother (= woman with emphasized, swollen bosom : when breast-feeding)
At the hand it is seen as the 'mother', the: thumb.  
JLPT no HSK
young girl
niū
Left: woman , right: ugly (The devil was simplified to the ugly: , here: part of mother )
The woman, who is only a part of a mother is: a young girl.  

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