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母子 (mǔ zǐ): meaning and stroke order

母子 (mǔ zǐ) means mother and child, parent and subsidiary (companies), principal and interest.

母子

Simplified
母子
Traditional
母子 (same form)
Pinyin
mǔ zǐ

Stroke order of 母子

母

  • mǔ mother; elderly female relative
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

子

  • zǐ son; child
  • zi noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 母子

  1. mǔ zǐ
    • mother and child
    • parent and subsidiary (companies)
    • principal and interest

Radicals of the characters

母
Radical 毋 (Kangxi radical 80) · 5 strokes
子
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 3 strokes · built from 了 and 一

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.

母子 in our stories

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  • 大火烧了三天三夜，却始终没有人走出来。火灭后，人们在一棵烧焦的柳树下，发现了母子两人的遗体。

    dàhuǒ shāo le sān tiān sān yè què shǐzhōng méiyǒu rén zǒu chūlai huǒ miè hòu rénmen zài yì kē shāojiāo de liǔshù xià fāxiàn le mǔzǐ liǎng rén de yítǐ

    The fire burned for three days and three nights, yet nobody ever came out. When it died down, they found mother and son dead beneath a scorched willow.

    From the story Cold Food Day and Qingming HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 许多年后，她的儿子考中了状元，回到塔前祭拜母亲。据说他的孝心感动了上天，雷峰塔倒了，母子终于团聚。

    xǔduō nián hòu tā de érzi kǎo zhōng le zhuàngyuan huídào tǎ qián jìbài mǔqīn jùshuō tā de xiàoxīn gǎndòng le shàngtiān Léifēng Tǎ dǎo le mǔzǐ zhōngyú tuánjù

    Many years later her son came first in the imperial examinations and returned to the pagoda to honour his mother. It is said his devotion moved Heaven: the Leifeng Pagoda fell, and mother and son were at last reunited.

    From the story The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 母子

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).