姑 (gū)
paternal aunt
How 姑 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 女 — woman
- Traditional
- 姑
- Simplified
- 姑 (unchanged)
Common words using 姑
- 姑娘 gūniang
- girl; young woman; young lady
- 大姑 dàgū
- father's oldest sister; husband's older sister; sister-in-law
- 姑姑 gūgu
- paternal aunt; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 姑媽 gūmā
- (coll.) father's married sister; paternal aunt
- 灰姑娘 huīgūniang
- Cinderella; a sudden rags-to-riches celebrity
- 三姑六婆 sāngūliùpó
- women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom)
- 仙姑 xiāngū
- female immortal; sorceress
- 姑丈 gūzhàng
- husband of paternal aunt
- 姑且 gūqiě
- temporarily; the time being; for the moment
- 姑夫 gūfu
- father's sister's husband; husband of paternal aunt; uncle
- 姑奶奶 gūnǎinai
- (informal) father's father's sister; great aunt
- 姑婆 gūpó
- grandfather's sister; sister of a woman's father-in-law
姑 in a sentence
姑姑過年會回來看我們。
Gūgu guònián huì huílái kàn wǒmen.
“My aunt will come back to see us during the Lunar New Year.”
How common is 姑?
姑 is the 992nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 89% of all running text.
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