(pó) - old woman; mother-in-law (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
póTraditional: 婆
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Translation
old woman; mother-in-law (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the woman radical 女 gives the meaning, and 波 (bō) supplies the sound, denoting an old woman or grandmother.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 女 (woman radical) + 波 (bō, phonetic)
Stroke order
婆
Examples
。
His wife is a teacher.
，。
Honey, I am home.
。
He lives together with his wife.
。
Her mother-in-law is a very nice person.
菜。
My wife's cooking smells the best.
婆 (pó) means old woman or mother-in-law. It is a bound morpheme and most often appears in 老婆 (lǎo pó), an informal word for wife.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 婆.
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