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母语 meaning in English

mǔyǔ

native language; mother tongue

Traditional 母語14 strokes

Meaning of 母语

Definitions from CC-CEDICT.

mǔyǔ
  1. native language
  2. mother tongue
  3. (linguistics) parent language

母语 in example sentences

Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.

我wǒ跟gēn英yīng语yǔ母mǔ语yǔ者zhě学xué了le四sì年nián英yīng语yǔ。
I studied English for four years with a native speaker.
意yì大dà利lì语yǔ是shì我wǒ的de母mǔ语yǔ。
Italian is my mother tongue.
法fǎ语yǔ不bú是shì我wǒ的de母mǔ语yǔ。
French isn't my mother tongue.
Julia的de母mǔ语yǔ是shì意yì大dà利lì语yǔ。
Julia's native language is Italian.
你nǐ的de母mǔ语yǔ是shì中zhōng文wén吗ma？
Is your mother tongue Chinese?

Stroke order for each character

Open a character for its meaning, components and more words.

母 mǔ · mother · 5 strokes

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5

语 yǔ · words · 9 strokes

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9

Related words

Words that share a character with 母语.

外语wàiyǔforeign language
汉语HànyǔChinese language
英语YīngyǔEnglish (language)
语言yǔyánlanguage
词语cíyǔword (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases); term (e.g. technical
母亲mǔqīnmother
父母fùmǔfather and mother; parents
字母zìmǔletter (of the alphabet)
语音yǔyīnspeech sounds; pronunciation
语法yǔfǎgrammar; (computing) syntax
口语kǒuyǔcolloquial speech; spoken language
言语yányǔwords; speech

Questions about 母语

What does 母语 mean?

母语 (mǔyǔ) means "native language; mother tongue".

How do you write 母语?

母语 is made of 2 characters: 母 (5 strokes), 语 (9 strokes). That is 14 strokes in total.

How is 母语 written in traditional Chinese?

In traditional characters, 母语 is written 母語.