月嫂

yuèsǎo

noun

Measure Word

一位月嫂 wèi

Meanings

1 postpartum confinement nanny (professional hired to care for mother and newborn during the first month after birth)

Characters

month (here: postpartum month)

elder brother's wife; married woman

Examples

我们请了一个金牌月嫂,一个月一万多。

Wǒmen qǐngle yí ge jīnpái yuèsǎo, yí ge yuè yí wàn duō.

We hired a top-tier postpartum nanny; it's over 10,000 yuan a month.

月嫂主要负责照顾产妇和新生儿。

Yuèsǎo zhǔyào fùzé zhàogu chǎnfù hé xīnshēng'ér.

A postpartum nanny is mainly responsible for looking after the new mother and the newborn.

Tips

culture

Tied to the tradition of 坐月子 (postpartum confinement), the roughly 30-day recovery period after childbirth. Urban middle-class families increasingly outsource the role, and 月嫂 is now a formal profession with grade ratings like 金牌月嫂 (gold-tier). Compare 育儿嫂 (nanny for older infants).

memory

月 = 'month' (here: the confinement month 月子), 嫂 = elder sister-in-law, used here as a polite address for a married working woman.

Stroke Order

月 yuè

嫂 sǎo