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Mythic Mandarin

妈妈 (mā ma): meaning and stroke order

妈妈 (mā ma) means mama, mommy, mother, 个,位.

妈妈

Simplified
妈妈
Traditional
媽媽
Pinyin
mā ma

Stroke order of 妈妈

妈

  • mā ma; mom
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 媽

Stroke by stroke

妈

  • mā ma; mom
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 媽

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 妈妈

  1. mā ma Traditional 媽媽
    • mama
    • mommy
    • mother
    • CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

Radicals of the characters

妈
Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 6 strokes · 女 on the left, 马 on the right

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.

妈妈 in our stories

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  • “我妈妈是中国人，我是美国人！”

    wǒ māma shì Zhōngguórén wǒ shì Měiguórén

    "My mum is Chinese, and I'm American!"

    From the story A new friend HSK 1

  • 这是他爸爸和妈妈。

    zhè shì tā bàba hé māma

    This is his dad and his mum.

    From the story A photo HSK 1

  • 马丽和妈妈去买苹果。

    Mǎ Lì hé māma qù mǎi píngguǒ

    Ma Li and her mum go to buy apples.

    From the story Buying apples HSK 1

Where you learn it

妈妈 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.

Stories using 妈妈

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).