老婆

lǎopo

noun HSK 4 #934

Meanings

1 wife

Characters

old; prefix for familiarity

old woman; grandmother

Examples

HSK 1

老婆，我回来了！

Lǎopo, wǒ huílai le!

Honey, I'm home!

HSK 2

他特别爱他的老婆。

Tā tèbié ài tā de lǎopo.

He loves his wife very much.

HSK 3

他每个月都把工资交给老婆管理。

Tā měi gè yuè dōu bǎ gōngzī jiāo gěi lǎopo guǎnlǐ.

Every month he hands his salary over to his wife to manage.

Tips

register

老婆 is the casual/intimate term for wife. 妻子 is formal. 太太 is polite and slightly old-fashioned. 爱人 is used in mainland China as a gender-neutral term for spouse.

Stroke Order

老 lǎo

婆 pó