姥
姥 — mo
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 할미 모
- Romanization
- mo
- English
- maternal grandmother; midwife
- Mandarin
- lǎo
- Japanese on'yomi
- ボ, モ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- うば
- Japanese usage
- Jinmeiyō kanji
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 女 (38, 6 residual)
- Unicode
- U+59E5
Parts that make up 姥
How 姥 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 姥 as a ideographic compound involving 女, 老.
Japanese words with 姥
- 山姥やまうば mountain witch; yamauba
- 姥うば elderly woman; noh mask of an old woman
- 姥桜うばざくら faded beauty
- 姥貝うばがい Sakhalin surf clam (Pseudocardium sachalinense)
- 姥鮫ウバザメ basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus)
- 姥魚うばうお Aspasma minima (species of clingfish)
- 姥捨てうばすて practice of abandoning old people, usu. women
- 姥目樫うばめがし ubame oak (Quercus phillyraeoides)
- 姥彼岸うばひがん double weeping rosebud cherry (Prunus pendula)
- 姥百合ウバユリ uba lily (Cardiocrinum cordatum)
- 姥捨て山うばすてやま mountain where old people were abandoned (according to legend); position or division in a company to which an old and ineffective person is transferred; women's college
- 姥烏帽子貝おばえぼしがい Inversidens brandti (species of freshwater mussel)
Other hanja read “모”
Other hanja with radical 女
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