孕妇

yùn fù · HSK 7

pregnant woman

🤰 孕妇 = 孕 (pregnant) + 妇 (woman) — literally a pregnant woman

孕 means pregnant and holds 子 (child) at its base; 妇 means married woman. Sound hook: yùn fù rhymes loosely with the soft oo-oo of a lullaby a mother hums. Stack the two parts and the compound spells out one expecting woman.

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