继母 (jìmǔ) — stepmother

Characters in this word

Strokes: 10
Radical: 纟 — silk
How it's built: Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

童话常把继母塑造成恶人，却很少呈现重组家庭真实而复杂的磨合。 Tónghuà cháng bǎ jìmǔ sùzào chéng èrén, què hěn shǎo chéngxiàn chóngzǔ jiātíng zhēnshí ér fùzá de móhé. Fairy tales often portray the stepmother as a villain, but rarely show the real and complex adjustment within reconstituted families.
继母对我很好，常常给我做我最爱吃的饺子。 Jìmǔ duì wǒ hěn hǎo, chángcháng gěi wǒ zuò wǒ zuì ài chī de jiǎozi. My stepmother is very kind to me and often makes my favourite dumplings.
虽然是继母，她却把两个孩子都当成亲生的。 Suīrán shì jìmǔ, tā què bǎ liǎng ge háizi dōu dàngchéng qīnshēng de. Although she is their stepmother, she treats both children as her own.