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媼

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷

媪

🇨🇳

old woman

HSK 10

Human →Relations →Occupations

ǎo

オウ

おうな

온

Components

Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

媪

Regular

Modern

Chinese

媪 / 媼 [ǎo]

old woman

Japanese

嫗、媼、老女 (old) おうな同音

noun elderly woman

姥、媼うば同音

noun

elderly woman
noh mask of an old woman

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (1)

老女は御客をじろじろ見た。

The old woman studied the visitor carefully.

JAPANESE WORDS (4)

姥 [うば] #65,506

嫗 [おうな] #115,111

老媼 [ろうおう] #149,583

翁媼 [おうおう]

old man and old woman