Word and Radical Components of 岳母

The Chinese word 岳母 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
岳母	yuèmǔ	1. n. mother-in-law (wife's mother)

岳母 ⇨ 岳 + 母

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
岳	yuè	1. (Alternative form *嶽) tall mountain
		2. (historical) name of a mountain ((generally interpreted as Mount Song (Eno, 2009)))
		3. parent-in-law
		岳飛 - Yue Fei
		4. Simplified form of 嶽
		5. Variant of ?
母	mǔ	1. mother
		父母 - father and mother
		母子 - mother and son
		(ant, zh, 父)
		2. (Used to address a female elder member of a family.)
		姑母 - father's sister
		祖母 - grandmother
		(ant, zh, 父)
		3. (of animal) female
		母牛 - female cow
		Synonyms: 雌
		(ant, zh, 公)
		4. pertaining to origin
		母校 - alma mater

岳 ⇨ 丘 + 山

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
丘	qiū	1. mound; hill
		山丘 - hill
		沙丘 - dune
		2. grave
		3. to place a coffin in a temporary shelter pending burial
		4. (dialectal)
		5. (obsolete) ruins
		6. (obsolete) empty
		丘成桐 - Shing-Tung Yau (mathematician)
		7. usage. See 邱.
		8. Variant of 兵
		9. Variant of 蚯
山	shān	1. mountain; hill
		登山 - to climb a mountain
		2. hill-shaped object
		冰山 - iceberg
		3. bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons
		4. gable
		5. (Cantonese, Liuzhou Mandarin, Pinghua) tomb; grave
		6. . Shan