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はは

(speaker's) mother

Mnemonic

She is the one laughing hardest at your terrible joke, and she is not being kind about it. Ha は, ha は: はは.

Worth knowing

Your own mother, spoken about to other people. 父 ちち is the matching word for father.

Built from

mother
A pictograph of a woman with the feeding marks drawn in.

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