母子

Chinese

female; mother
 
child; son; (noun suffix)
child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
simp. and trad.
(母子)
母 子

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 母 子
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 侯 (137) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 莫厚切 即里切
Baxter muwX tsiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/məuX/ /t͡sɨX/
Pan
Wuyun
/məuX/ /t͡sɨX/
Shao
Rongfen
/məuX/ /t͡sieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/məwX/ /t͡sɨX/
Li
Rong
/muX/ /t͡siəX/
Wang
Li
/məuX/ /t͡sĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mə̯uX/ /t͡siX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mǒu zǐ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
mau5 zi2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 母 子
Reading # 1/1 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
mǔ zǐ
Middle
Chinese
‹ muwX › ‹ tsiX ›
Old
Chinese
/*məʔ/ (? or *mˁoʔ) /*tsəʔ/
English mother child; gentleman, master

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 母 子
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 9288 17857
Phonetic
component
母 子
Rime
group
之 之
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
母 子
Old
Chinese
/*mɯʔ/ /*ʔslɯʔ/

Noun

母子

  1. mother and son; mother and child
  2. parent and subsidiary companies
  3. principal and interest

Synonyms

  • (mother and child):

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
母 子
ぼ
Grade: 2
し
Grade: 1
kan’yōon on’yomi

Noun

母(ぼ)子(し) • (boshi) 

  1. mother and child

See also

Korean

Hanja in this term
母子

Noun

母子 • (moja) (hangeul 모자)

  1. Hanja form? of 모자 (“mother and son”).
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