mother-in-law

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

波 sound component

  Sound component

  

waves

Definitions

 

old woman; grandmother; matron; mother-in-law; (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship)

Most common words with 婆
Freq.
Word
Meaning

老婆

(coll.) wife

matron

外婆

(coll.) mother's mother

婆婆

grandma

巫婆

witch

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]ˤa[j]

ba

婆娑 saunter, dance


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 33.1571% of movies

953rd most common character in movies

1347th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5A46


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