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义母

yì mǔ

2-character word Traditional 義母

What 义母 means

1. adoptive mother

The characters in 义母

• 义yìjustice; righteousness; meaning
• 母mǔmother; elderly female relative; origin

Sounds the same

Read yì mǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 异母(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers
• 益母motherwort (Leonurus heterophyllus)

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