姑 (Kangxi radical 38,女+5, 8 strokes,cangjie input女十口 (VJR),four-corner4446₀,composition⿰女古)

• 㑬,𠵎,㣨,𢯐,㴌,𧍏,𦁿,𪂯,𫱬,𪦭,菇,𨐞

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 258, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6174
• Dae Jaweon: page 524, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1035, character 4
• Unihan data for U+59D1

Historical forms of the character姑
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)	Liushutong (compiled inMing)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*kaː): semantic 女(“woman”) + phonetic 古(OC*kaːʔ) – a type of woman (aunt, mother-in-law).

姑

1. father'ssister

   • 姪其從姑[Classical Chinese,trad.]
     侄其从姑[Classical Chinese,simp.]

     From:Commentary of Zuo,c. 4^th centuryBCE

     Zhí qí cónggū[Pinyin]

     The (paternal) nephew follows his(paternal) aunt

2. husband'ssister

   • 新婦初來時，小姑始扶床；今日被驅遣，小姑如我長。[MSC,trad.]
     新妇初来时，小姑始扶床；今日被驱遣，小姑如我长。[MSC,simp.]

     From:〈孔雀東南飛〉 "The Peacock Flies Southeast" in《樂府詩集》 "Collected songs of the Music Bureau style" by郭茂倩Guo Maoqian.

     Xīnfù chūlái shí, xiǎogū shǐ fú chuáng; jīnrì bèi qūqiǎn, xiǎogū rú wǒ cháng.[Pinyin]

     When I was a newcome bride, myhusband's littlesister just began to lean on the bed. Today when I'm banished, myhusband's littlesister is as tall as I.

3. husband'smother

   • 婦事舅姑，如事父母。[Classical Chinese,trad.]
     妇事舅姑，如事父母。[Classical Chinese,simp.]

     From: TheBook of Rites,c. 4^th – 2^nd centuryBCE

     Fù shì jiùgū, rú shì fùmǔ.[Pinyin]

     A wife shall serve her father-in-law andmother-in-law, just as she served her father and mother.

4. woman
5. nun
6. mole cricket
7. tentatively
8. asurname

• “姑”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1],香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong),2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on:く(ku)
• Kan-on:こ(ko)
• Kun:しゅうとめ(shūtome,姑)、しゅうと(shūto,姑)、しばらく(shibaraku,姑く)、おば(oba)

/sihi₁to₂me₁/: [shipitwome] → [shiɸitwome] → [shiɸitome]. Compound of舅(shihito,“in law”) and女(me,“woman”). See next entry.

姑(しひとめ)• (shihitome) 

1. a mother-in-law

Fromshihitome: [shipitwome] → [shiɸitwome] → [shiɸitome] → [shiɸutome] → [shiwutome] → [shiutome] → [shuːtome].

• (Tokyo)しゅうとめ[shùútómé] (Heiban – [0])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ɕɨːto̞me̞]

姑(しゅうとめ)• (shūtome) ^{←しうとめ(siutome)?}

1. a mother-in-law

• (Tokyo)しゅうと[shùútó] (Heiban – [0])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ɕɨːto̞]

姑(しゅうと)• (shūto) ^{←しうと(siuto)?}

1. a mother-in-law

• “^▲姑”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2025

姑 (eumhun시어미고(sieomi go))

1. hanja form^? of고(“mother-in-law”)

姑:Hán Việt readings:cô^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}
姑:Nôm readings:cô^[1][2][3],co^[1][2],go^[7],o^[7],cua^[1]

1. chữ Hán form ofcô(“paternal aunt,young lady”)
2. chữ Nôm form ofo(“dialectal form ofcô”)

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