婆
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Translingual[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 波 + semantic 女 (“woman”) – a kind of woman.
Han character[edit]
婆 (radical 38 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水水女 (EEV), four-corner 34404, composition ⿱波女)
- (an) old woman
- (a) grandmother
- (a/the) crone
Coordinate terms[edit]
References[edit]
- KangXi: page 264, character 6
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6390
- Dae Jaweon: page 530, character 26
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1061, character 11
- Unihan data for U+5A46
Cantonese[edit]
Hanzi[edit]
Japanese[edit]
Kanji[edit]
婆
Readings[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
See also[edit]
- (the maiden): 少女 (shōjo), 乙女 (otome), 処女 (shojo)
- (the mother): 母 (haha), 婚女 (konjo)
- (the crone): お婆さん (obaasan), 祖母 (sobo), 外祖母 (gaisobo)
- (the goddess): 女神 (megami)
Korean[edit]
Hanja[edit]
婆 (pa) (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune-Reischauer p'a)
Mandarin[edit]
Hanzi[edit]
婆 (Pinyin pó (po2), Wade-Giles p'o2)
Compounds[edit]
Middle Chinese[edit]
Han character[edit]
婆 (bhɑ)
Vietnamese[edit]
Han character[edit]
婆 (bà)
