paternal aunt; husband's sister

HSK 5 #994

Character data

HSK 5
Frequency 994th character
Radical ⼥ (38.5)
Strokes 8
Index # 1325

Definitions

姑 gū
  1. 1. paternal aunt
  2. 2. husband's sister
  3. 3. for the time being (literary)
  4. 4. nun
  5. 5. husband's mother (old)

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Words containing 姑

Word Meaning
girl; young woman; young lady
paternal aunt
for the time being; tentatively
paternal aunt; (coll.) father's married sister
Cinderella; a sudden rags-to-riches celebrity
Buddhist nun
excessively tolerant; overly conciliatory
father's sister's husband; husband of paternal aunt; uncle
grandfather's sister; sister of a woman's father-in-law
country bumpkin; village girl
(coll.) father's father's sister; great aunt
son-in-law (used by wife's family)
husband's younger sister; sister-in-law
father's sister; paternal aunt
to indulge evil; tolerate wrongdoing
Daoist nun
arrowhead (Sagittaria subulata, a water plant)
husband's older sister; father's oldest sister
uncle; father's sister's husband; husband of paternal aunt
distant relatives
women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom)
female immortal; sorceress
husband of paternal aunt
to just talk for the sake of talking
great aunt; mother's father's sister (coll.)
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