The Chinese Radical: 母


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Meaning
mother    母

Explanation Shows 'woman' 女 with an elongated right stroke ノ and with two dots : which are the swollen breasts of a nursing (breast-feeding) mother.

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
mother, mom

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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