母“mother” Kanjihaha / bo
How to write 母
Meaning and readings
Meaning
mother
Onyomi (音読み)
- ぼ bo
Chinese reading
Kunyomi (訓読み)
- はは haha
- かあ kā
Japanese reading
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Human-reviewed sentence pairs from the Tatoeba corpus, with readings shown above the kanji.
トムのお母さん見たことある？
Have you ever seen Tom's mother?
お母さん (おかあさん)
母はケーキを８つに分けました。
Mother divided the cake into eight pieces.
母 (はは)
「母さんどこにいるの？」「キッチンよ」
"Where's mom?" "She's in the kitchen."
母さん (かあさん)
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