母
ボ, はは, も

mother

JLPT5 G2 S5 F570

A depiction of a woman, with emphasis on the nipples → *mother*. Conceptually, the character suggests that a mother is a curvaceous producer of a succession of offspring from the darkness of the womb. The most ancient pronunciation of this term was MA, a sound comparatively easy for infants to produce. Compare 夫.

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