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Mythic Mandarin

父母 (fù mǔ): meaning and stroke order

父母 (fù mǔ) means father and mother; parents.

父母

Simplified
父母
Traditional
父母 (same form)
Pinyin
fù mǔ

Stroke order of 父母

父

  • fù father
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

母

  • mǔ mother; elderly female relative
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 父母

  1. fù mǔ
    • father and mother; parents

Radicals of the characters

父
Radical 父 (Kangxi radical 88) · 4 strokes · 八 on top, 乂 below
母
Radical 毋 (Kangxi radical 80) · 5 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

父母 in our stories

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  • 郭子涵的父母都是医生，从她小时候起，他们就希望她将来也当医生。

    Guō Zǐhán de fùmǔ dōu shì yīshēng cóng tā xiǎo shíhou qǐ tāmen jiù xīwàng tā jiānglái yě dāng yīshēng

    Guo Zihan's parents were both doctors, and ever since she was little they had hoped she would be one too.

    From the story The three-tier cake HSK 5

Stories using 父母

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).