This nanny is very patient and the children all like her.
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姆 almost never stands alone. Its main everyday word is 保姆 (nanny / domestic helper). It also appears as a transliteration syllable in foreign names. A rare dialectal reading m shows up only in 姆妈 (mum, in some southern speech).
The woman radical on the left files 姆 under a family of words for female roles and caregivers, fitting its core meaning of a nursemaid or female tutor.
