méi mu
progress
prospect of solution
sign of positive outcome
Dà mu zhǐ
Tom Thumb (small person in folk tales)
wáng mǔ
(literary) paternal grandmother
chī mu hū
(dialect) gum (in one's eyes)
Wáng mǔ
another name for 西王母[Xi1 wang2 mu3], Queen Mother of the West
shù qǐ dà mu zhǐ
to give a thumbs-up
to express one's approval