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妈 — stroke order
Watch how to write 妈 (mā) stroke by stroke. 妈 has 6 strokes and means “mother”. It appears in common words such as 妈妈 (mama) and 老妈 (mother). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 妈
The most common words that use 妈 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
妈妈māmamama老妈lǎomāmother妈咪māmimommy姨妈yímāmother's sister大妈dàmāfather's elder brother's wife大姨妈dàyímāgreat aunt
How 妈 is written
- Radical
- 女
- Components
- 女 ＋ 马
- Formation
- Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 女 and a phonetic component 马 (woman).