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阿婆
Mandarin · pinyin ā pó
Meanings
- granny
- mother-in-law
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1–2 · a1 po2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
aa3 po4
Cantonese word readings for 阿婆. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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aa3 po4
Pleco · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Word reading; meanings not aligned.
Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
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noun
- (Southwestern Mandarin, dialectal Cantonese, Hakka, dialectal Wu) paternal grandmother
- (Southwestern Mandarin, Cantonese, Gan, dialectal Wu, Pinghua) maternal grandmother
- (Wu) mother-in-law (husband's mother)
- (dialectal, including Hokkien, honorific) old woman
- (Gan) midwife (female only)
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