1. 媽
  2. 祖

媽

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  1. 媽 is the 749th most frequent character.
  2. 媽 has 1 dictionary entry.
  3. 媽 appears as a character in 20 words.
  4. 媽 appears as a component in 0 characters.

Decomposition:

Once :
媽 => 女, 馬
Radical :
媽 => 女 (woman), 馬 (horse)
Graphical :
媽 => ㇛, 一, 丿, 一, 二, 丨, ㇉, 灬

Pinyin & Meaning:

  1. ma1 - ma/mom/mother

Pronunciation Clues:

  1. Pronunciation clue for 媽 (ma1): The component 馬 is pronounced as 'ma3'. It has the same pronunciation as the character, but differs on tone.

Example Words:

High Frequency

妈 (媽)
妈妈 (媽媽)

Medium Frequency

姨妈 (姨媽)
妈咪 (媽咪)
老妈 (老媽)

祖

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  1. 祖 is the 1023rd most frequent character.
  2. 祖 has 2 dictionary entries.
  3. 祖 appears as a character in 44 words.
  4. 祖 appears as a component in 0 characters.

Decomposition:

Once :
祖 => 礻, 且
Radical :
祖 => 礻 (sign), 月 (moon), 一 (one)
Graphical :
祖 => 一, 一, 丨, 一, 丶, 戈, 丨, 丶, 冂, 二, 一

Pinyin & Meaning:

  1. Zu3 - surname Zu
  2. zu3 - ancestor/forefather/grandparents

Pronunciation Clues:

  1. There are no phonetic clues for this character.

Example Words:

High Frequency

佛祖 
祖国 (祖國)
祖宗 

Medium Frequency

始祖 
妈祖 (媽祖)
容祖儿 (容祖兒)
王祖贤 (王祖賢)
祖 
祖传 (祖傳)
祖先 
祖坟 (祖墳)
祖母 
祖父 
祖籍 
祖辈 (祖輩)
祭祖 
鼻祖 
Decomposition Levels:
Level 1: Only divided once. So only two components.
Level 2: Radical Decomposition. The character gets decomposed into its lowest radical components. For the complete list visit the Radical wikipedia page.
Level 3: Graphical Decomposition. Shows all the strokes & lowest level of components that make up the character.
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