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Meanings
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- 1.(bound form) breast
- 2.(bound form) milk
- 3.(bound form) newborn; suckling
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Wiktionary
- 1.to breastfeed; to suckle
- 2.breast; nipples
- 3.milk; breast milk
- 4.milk or cheese-like substance
- 5.to breed; to propagate
- 6.newborn; young and small
- 7.to multiply; to proliferate; to reproduce; to breed
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形): A kneeling woman holding and breastfeeding a child. The woman resembles the character 母. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəw.
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Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
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Derived terms
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Related words
哺乳 breastfeeding乳钵 small mortar used for grinding medicines into a powder (TCM)乳名 infant name; pet name for a child丰乳 to enlarge one's breasts (e.g. by surgery)乳业 dairy industry; dairy farming酪乳 buttermilk胚乳 (botany) endosperm乳腐 fermented tofu下乳 to promote lactation (TCM)隆乳 breast enlargement乳燕 baby swallow蜂乳 royal jelly