Illustration: In an apartment entrance hall before nursery school, a mother crouches to fasten her young child's shoe. The child steadies one hand on her shoulder and carefully tucks a loose strand of her hair behind her ear in return.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

母はは親おや

hahaoya

mother

Example sentences

その女おんなの子こは彼女かのじょの母親ははおやと似にている。
The girl resembles her mother.
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彼女かのじょは母親ははおや似にです。
She takes after her mother.
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彼かれは母親ははおやに叱しかられた。
He was scolded by his mother.
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Kanji in 母親

母motherOnボKunはは・も
親parent; intimacyOnシンKunおや・おや-・したしい

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