婆
婆 — Old woman
old woman, grandma, wet nurse
On’yomiバ (ba)
Kun’yomiばば (baba)
Kun’yomiばあ (baa)
Stroke order (11 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 婆
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 婆さん | ばあさん baasan | grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen |
| 婆 | ばば baba | old woman; joker (in old maid) |
| 老婆 | ろうば rouba | old woman |
| 麻婆 | マーボー ma-bo- | mapo (style of dish); dish featuring minced meat stir-fried and seasoned with chili bean paste (e.g. mabo nasu); mapo tofu (spicy Sichuan dish of tofu and minced meat) |
Study notes
婆 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 11 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #2435 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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