妁 — Chinese character
妁
shuò
matchmaker, go-between
- Pinyin
- shuò
- Radical
- 38 ⼥ (Woman)
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- 女 勺
- Formation
- pictophonetic — woman; meaning component 女; sound component 勺
- Japanese
- 妁 as a kanji
Common words with 妁
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 媒妁之言 | méi shuò zhī yán | (idiom) matchmaker's services (in establishing an arranged marriage) |
| 媒妁 | méi shuò | (literary) (marital) matchmaker; go-between |
妁 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 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.