伯母

伯母 bómǔ in a sentence

Wife of father's elder brother; aunt; (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother)†

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

伯母 (bómǔ) means Wife of father's elder brother, aunt, (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) †. Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

每年过节我们都去看望 伯母 。

Měi nián guòjié wǒmen dōu qù kànwàng bómǔ.

Every festival we go to visit my aunt.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 伯母

伯母 做的菜比饭馆里的还好吃。

Bómǔ zuò de cài bǐ fànguǎn lǐ de hái hǎochī.

My aunt's cooking is even better than a restaurant's.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 伯母

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How is 伯母 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 伯母 (bómǔ, "Wife of father's elder brother, aunt, (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) †"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 伯母 an HSK word?

Yes — 伯母 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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The dictionary page for 伯母 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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