婆

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 波 + semantic 女 (“woman”) – a kind of woman.

Han character

婆 (radical 38 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水水女 (EEV), four-corner 3440₄, composition ⿱波女)

1. (an) old woman
2. (a) grandmother
3. (a/the) crone

Coordinate terms

• 爺

References

• KangXi: page 264, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6390
• Dae Jaweon: page 530, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1061, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5A46

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Cantonese

Hanzi

婆 (jyutping po4, Yale po4)

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Japanese

Kanji

婆 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ば (ba)
• Kun: ばば (baba)
  • Manyo-gana: ば (ba)

Synonyms

• 姥 (うば, uba)

See also

• (the maiden): 少女 (shōjo), 乙女 (otome), 処女 (shojo)
• (the mother): 母 (haha), 婚女 (konjo)
• (the crone): お婆さん (obaasan), 祖母 (sobo), 外祖母 (gaisobo)
• (the goddess): 女神 (megami)

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Korean

Hanja

婆 (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune-Reischauer p'a)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

婆 (pinyin pó (po2), Wade-Giles p'o²)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

婆 (bhɑ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

婆 (bà)