嫗 — Chinese character
嫗
yù
old woman, hag; to protect; to brood over
- Pinyin
- yù
- Radical
- 38 ⼥ (Woman)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 女 區
- Formation
- ideographic — A woman 女 watching over her ward 區
- Simplified
- 妪
- Japanese
- 嫗 as a kanji
嫗 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: 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.