lǎo

maternal grandmother

An older  woman  also provides the pronunciation

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

老 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

lǎo

  

old

Definitions

 

lǎo

maternal grandmother; midwife; grandma (maternal)

 

governess; old woman

Most common words with 姥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

姥姥

(coll.) mother's mother

governess

姥爷

maternal grandfather (dialectal)

姨姥姥

great-aunt

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.8650% of movies

2854th most common character in movies

2874th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+59E5


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