姥
mǔlǎo HSK7

maternal grandmother

姥 mǔ frequency
governess noun
a woman employed to manage, care for, or teach children in a household

那名老姥在宫里专门负责照看刚出生的小皇子。

nà míng lǎo mǔ zài gōng lǐ zhuān​mén fù​zé zhào​kàn gāng chū​shēng de xiǎo huáng​zǐ.

That old matron in the palace was specifically responsible for looking after the newborn little prince.

old woman noun
a general or respectful term used to refer to an elderly woman

这位姓张的姥在村里深受大家尊敬。

zhè wèi xìng Zhāng de mǔ zài cūn​lǐ shēn shòu dà​jiā zūn​jìng.

This elderly woman named Zhang is highly respected in the village.

姥 lǎo
maternal grandmother noun

我姥平时最疼我了。

wǒ lǎo píng​shí zuì téng wǒ le.

My grandma usually dotes on me the most.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,874th most common 11.6 per million
Movie subtitles
2,852nd most common 4.31 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.090 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
3.79 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+59E5

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)