嫂 — Chinese character
嫂
sǎo
sister-in-law, elder brother's wife
- Pinyin
- sǎo
- Radical
- 38 ⼥ (Woman)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 女 叟
- Formation
- pictophonetic — woman; meaning component 女; sound component 叟
- Japanese
- 嫂 as a kanji
Common words with 嫂
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 嫂子 | sǎo zi | (coll.) older brother's wife; sister-in-law |
| 大嫂 | dà sǎo | older brother's wife; sister-in-law |
| 嫂嫂 | sǎo sao | older brother's wife; sister-in-law |
| 兄嫂 | xiōng sǎo | elder brother and his wife |
| 军嫂 (軍嫂) | jūn sǎo | wife of a serviceman; soldier's wife |
| 表嫂 | biǎo sǎo | wife of older male cousin via female line |
| 堂嫂 | táng sǎo | wife of older male cousin via male line |
| 家嫂 | jiā sǎo | (polite) my sister-in-law |
| 月嫂 | yuè sǎo | woman hired to take care of a newborn child and its mother in the month after childbirth |
| 空嫂 | kōng sǎo | married stewardess of mature age |
| 老嫂子 | lǎo sǎo zi | (slang) effeminate man |
| 育儿嫂 (育兒嫂) | yù ér sǎo | nanny (for infants and toddlers) |
嫂 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 5 · Zhuangzi 1
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.