婆 — Chinese character
婆
pó
old woman; grandmother
- Pinyin
- pó
- Radical
- 38 ⼥ (Woman)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 波 女
- Formation
- pictophonetic — woman; meaning component 女; sound component 波
- Japanese
- 婆 as a kanji
Common words with 婆
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 老婆 | lǎo pó | (coll.) wife |
| 婆婆 | pó po | husband's mother; mother-in-law |
| 外婆 | wài pó | (coll.) mother's mother; maternal grandmother |
| 老太婆 | lǎo tài pó | old woman (at times contemptuous) |
| 富婆 | fù pó | wealthy woman |
| 婆娘 | pó niang | (dialect) wife; (derog.) woman |
| 阿婆 | ā pó | granny; mother-in-law |
| 湿婆 (濕婆) | shī pó | Shiva (Hindu deity) |
| 公婆 | gōng pó | husband's parents; parents-in-law; (dialect) a couple; husband and wife |
| 婆媳 | pó xí | mother-in-law and daughter-in-law |
| 小老婆 | xiǎo lǎo pó | concubine; mistress |
| 婆娑 | pó suō | to swirl about; (of leaves and branches) to sway |
English words written with 婆
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.