(gū) - aunt; girl (in guniang) in Mandarin
gūTraditional: 姑
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Translation
aunt; girl (in guniang)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the woman radical 女 on the left marks it as a female kinship term, and 古 (gu) supplies the sound, giving the senses of paternal aunt and, in 姑娘, a young woman.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 女 (woman radical) + 古 (gu, phonetic)
Stroke order
姑
Examples
。
That young woman is very pretty.
，？
Excuse me miss, what time is it?
。
This young lady is my classmate.
。
My aunt lives in Shanghai.
。
Auntie is coming to see us tomorrow.
姑 (gū) means aunt and also appears in 姑娘 (gūniáng), young woman or miss.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 姑.
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