婆
pó HSK4

mother-in-law

婆 pó
grandmother noun
grandmother, often used in bound forms like paternal or maternal grandmother

我婆今天特意为我包了饺子。

wǒ pó jīn​tiān tè​yì wèi wǒ bāo le jiǎo​zi.

My grandmother specially made dumplings for me today.

femme noun
the more feminine partner in a lesbian relationship (slang, from the 'P' in T/P)

在这对同性情侣中，她是比较女性化的婆。

zài zhè duì tóng​xìng qíng​lǚ zhōng, tā shì bǐ​jiào nǚ​xìng​huà de pó.

In this same-sex couple, she is the more feminine 'Po' (femme).

matron noun
an elderly woman or a woman performing a specific role

那个稳婆很有接生经验。

nà gè wěn pó hěn yǒu jiē​shēng jīng​yàn.

That midwife is very experienced in delivering babies.

mother-in-law noun
the mother of one's husband

婆媳之间的关系往往很难处理。

pó xí zhī​jiān de guān​xi wǎng​wǎng hěn nán chǔ​lǐ.

The relationship between a mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law is often difficult to handle.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,347th most common 91.0 per million
Movie subtitles
953rd most common 113.6 per million appears in 33% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
11.8 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
14.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+5A46

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