Chinese symbol for “granny”
阿婆
ā pó
granny; mother-in-law
The closest CC-CEDICT match for granny is 阿婆 (ā pó), defined as: granny; mother-in-law.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “granny”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阿奶 | ā nǎi | granny |
| 唉姐 | āi jiě | granny (dialect) |
| 娭 | āi | see 娭姐 (āi jiě), father's mother; granny (dialect) |
| 娭姐 | āi jiě | father's mother; granny (dialect) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 阿婆.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阿姨 | ā yí | maternal aunt; term of address for a woman of one's mother's generation |
| 阿拉 | ā lā | (Wu dialect) I; me; my; we; us; our |
| 阿门 (阿門) | ā mén | (loanword) amen |
| 阿尔法 (阿爾法) | ā ěr fǎ | alpha (Greek letter Α, α) |
| 阿哥 | ā gē | (familiar) elder brother |
| 阿尔卑斯 (阿爾卑斯) | ā ěr bēi sī | alps (mountain range) |
| 老婆 | lǎo pó | (coll.) wife |
| 婆婆 | pó po | husband's mother; mother-in-law |
See also: Japanese symbol for “granny”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.