姑
- Meaning
- mother-in-law
- On reading
- コ
- Kun reading
- しゅうとめ | しゅうと | おば | しばらく
- Nanori
- —
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 38
- Grade
- —
- JLPT
- —
- Frequency
- 2041
Stroke order
Words using 姑
- 姑 しゅうとめ — mother-in-law
- 暫く しばらく — for a moment
- 姑息 こそく — underhanded
- 芸妓 げいぎ — geisha
- 因循姑息 いんじゅんこそく — dilly-dallying and temporizing (temporising)
- 舅姑 きゅうこ — parents-in-law
- 小姑 こじゅうと — sister-in-law
- 慈姑 くわい — Sagittaria trifolia var. edulis (edible variant of threeleaf arrowhead)
- 小心姑息 しょうしんこそく — timid and evasive (person)
- 麻姑掻痒 まこそうよう — things happening exactly as one pleases (wishes)
- 梯梧 でいご — Indian coral tree (Erythrina variegata)
- 姑洗 こせん — (in China) 5th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. F sharp)
- 産女 うぶめ — Ubume
- 黒慈姑 くろぐわい — Eleocharis kuroguwai (species of spikerush)
- 大黒慈姑 おおくろぐわい — Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis var. tuberosa)
- 白慈姑 しろぐわい — Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis)
- 麻姑 まこ — Ma Gu
- 嫁姑 よめしゅうとめ — daughter-in-law and mother-in-law (relationship, conflict, etc.)
- 姑娘 クーニャン — girl (esp. Chinese)
- 嫁姑戦争 よめしゅうとせんそう — conflict between a bride and her mother-in-law
- 外姑 がいこ — mother-in-law (of the husband)
- 赤詰草 あかつめくさ — red clover (Trifolium pratense)
- 阿摩美久 あまみきよ — Amamikyu (Ryukyuan religion creation goddess)