The Chinese word for mother-in-law is
岳母
yue mu (yuè mǔ)Chinese Definition
| mother-in-law | |
| 1. 婆母 | |
| 2. 岳母 | |
| Components | |
| 岳 | |
| 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 | |
| 1. mother | |
| 父母 - father and mother | |
| 母子 - mother and son | |
| Antonyms: 父 | |
| 2. (Used to address a female elder member of a family.) | |
| 姑母 - father's sister | |
| 祖母 - grandmother | |
| Antonyms: 父 | |
| 3. (of animal) female | |
| 母牛 - female cow | |
| Synonyms: 雌 | |
| Antonyms: 公 | |
| 4. pertaining to origin | |
| 母校 - alma mater |
Translations for 母 and their definitions
| 岳母 | |
| 1. n. mother-in-law (wife's mother) |
| 婆婆 | |
| 1. n. (chiefly Mandarin Jin) mother-in-law (husband's mother) | |
| 2. n. (Cantonese, dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Hakka, dialectal Jin, dialectal Wu, Taining Gan, Jianyang Min Bei, Shaowu Min) maternal grandmother | |
| 3. n. (Gan, dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Xiang, dialectal Wu) paternal grandmother | |
| 4. n. (dialectal) old woman | |
| 5. n. (figurative, Mainland China) higher authorities; superior; leader |
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