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母はは - haha
mother
Definitions
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母 |
1. Usage: In isolation, the character 母 has 5 strokes in modern Japanese – it is not simplified. In 新字体, sc=Latn, shinjitai compound characters, such as 毎 or 海, it is simplified to 4 strokes, as 毋 |
2. n. mother |
(ja-x, 織%田%信%長の母は謎が多い。, お%だ% のぶ%なが の はは は なぞ が おおい。, Oda Nobunaga's mother was a mysterious woman.) |
3. n. Usage: * This term conveys neither positive nor negative connotations. However, using it to describe someone the speaker knows personally is often considered lacking respect, where more polite |
4. n. Usage: * This term is sometimes used in objective narrations, but for this purpose |
5. n. (humble) mother |
6. n. Usage: Obsolete in mainstream (cog, ja, -). May persist in dialects. |
7. n. (obsolete) mother |
8. n. Usage: Not found in isolation, only found in compounds. Obsolete and unused in modern (cog, ja, -). |
9. n. (obsolete) mother |
10. n. a woman who breastfeeds and raises a child in place of a parent: a wet nurse |
11. n. (childish) mommy, mummy |
12. n. (obsolete) wife |
Seen in the (Edo period) among the lower socioeconomic classes. Used to refer both to one's own wife when talking to others, and to refer to someone else's wife. |
13. n. mother |
14. n. Usage: Almost never seen in isolation. Most commonly seen with honorific prefix o- and honorific suffix -san, as |
Pronunciation
haha
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