Keyword
husband's mother
- father's sister
- Frequency
- #1415
- Strokes
- 8
Readings
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Mnemonic
An older 古 woman 女; 古 also provides the pronunciation
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in characters
Used in vocabulary
姑娘
girl; young woman; young lady; daughter; paternal aunt (old)
姑姑
paternal aunt
姑妈
(coll.) father's married sister; paternal aunt
灰姑娘
Cinderella; a sudden rags-to-riches celebrity
尼姑
Buddhist nun
姑且
for the time being; tentatively
姑
paternal aunt; husband's sister; husband's mother (old); nun; for the time being (literary)
姑息
excessively tolerant; to overindulge (sb); overly conciliatory; to seek appeasement at any price
村姑
village girl; country bumpkin
姑母
father's sister; paternal aunt
姑父
father's sister's husband; husband of paternal aunt; uncle
姑爷
son-in-law (used by wife's family); uncle (husband of father's sister)
小姑
father's youngest sister; husband's younger sister; sister-in-law
仙姑
female immortal; sorceress
姑丈
husband of paternal aunt
姑婆
grandfather's sister; sister of a woman's father-in-law
大姑
father's oldest sister; husband's older sister; sister-in-law
姑奶奶
paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister); (respectful form of address for a married woman used by members of her parents' family) married daughter; (brassy self-reference used by a woman in an altercation) I; me; this lady here; (coll.) form of address for an unmarried girl or woman, expressing affection or reproach
道姑
Daoist nun
小姑子
(coll.) husband's younger sister; sister-in-law
皇姑区
Huanggu, a district of Shenyang City 沈阳市 (ShěnyángShì), Liaoning
姑夫
father's sister's husband; husband of paternal aunt; uncle
三姑六婆
women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom)
慈姑
arrowhead (Sagittaria subulata, a water plant)