婆 (pó)
grandmother/wife (colloquial)
How 婆 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Traditional
- 婆
- Simplified
- 婆 (unchanged)
Common words using 婆
- 老婆 lǎopó
- (informal) wife
- 公婆 gōngpó
- husband's parents; parents-in-law
- 外婆 wàipó
- (informal) mother's mother; maternal grandmother
- 婆婆 pópo
- husband's mother; mother-in-law; grandma
- 三姑六婆 sāngūliùpó
- women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom)
- 八婆 bāpó
- meddling woman; nosy parker (Cantonese)
- 叔婆 shūpó
- aunt by marriage; husband's aunt; husband's father's younger brother's wife
- 大老婆 dàlǎopó
- primary wife
- 太婆 tàipó
- great-grandmother
- 姑婆 gūpó
- grandfather's sister; sister of a woman's father-in-law
- 婆囉洲 póluózhōu
- Borneo island (of Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei)
- 婆娑 pósuō
- dancing; whirling; hovering
婆 in a sentence
我老婆很喜歡做菜。
Wǒ lǎopó hěn xǐhuān zuòcài.
“My wife really likes to cook.”
How common is 婆?
婆 is the 1,345th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 93.3% of all running text.
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