Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
woman, female
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On reading compounds

  • 姑息 【コソク】 underhanded, unfair, makeshift, stopgap
  • 姑洗 【コセン】 (in China) 5th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. F sharp), third lunar month
  • 芸妓 【ゲイギ】 geisha
  • 外姑 【ガイコ】 mother-in-law (of the husband)

Kun reading compounds

  • 姑 【しゅうとめ】 mother-in-law
  • 嫁姑 【よめしゅうとめ】 daughter-in-law and mother-in-law (relationship, conflict, etc.)
  • 姑 【しゅうとめ】 mother-in-law
  • 暫く 【しばらく】 for a moment, for a minute, for a while, for some time, for the time being, for now, it's been a long time, long time no see

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gu1
Korean:
go

Spanish

  • suegra
  • de momento
  • por ahora

Portuguese

French

1201 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
332 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6174 Morohashi
1194 New Nelson (John Haig)
2205 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2317 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3e5.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
4446.0 Four corner code
1-24-40 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
59d1 Unicode hex code