Entry
  1. Noun

    elderly housekeeper; elderly maid

    Usually written using kana aloneFamiliar languagealso vocativesee 爺や

  2. wet nurse; nanny

    Usually written using kana alone

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

old woman, grandma, wet nurse

Kun
ばばばあ
On
Strokes
11
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N1
Frequency
2435 of 2500
Radical
woman
WaniKani
Level 47

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Dictionary and index codes (28)
CodeReference
2-8-3SKIP code
3e8.9The Kanji Dictionary
3440.4Four corner code
369deroo
5a46Unicode hex code
1-39-44JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1234Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1240New Nelson (John Haig)
2762New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3433Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1768Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2407Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
804Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
867Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2039A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1262Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
6390Morohashi
1684A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1931Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1421Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2116Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1902Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
430Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
812Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
po2Pinyin reading
paKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
47WaniKani level