paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary)

= + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) and Bessie Coleman (女) have both decided to become nuns (姑). In front of the space station (Ø1) they are about to enter a secluded cloister (古).

姑 character breakdown

surname Gu
ancient / old / paleo-

= + : Mnemonic symbol: at least on German maps, this character actually resembles a cloister.

Oh no! Gitta Giraffe (gu) found that the golden cross (十) broke off of the cloister (古) in the space station's living room (Ø3)! She skewers a mandarin (口) on top of the cloister so that she can skewer the broken off cross back on to fix it.
female / woman / daughter

I'll represent 女 by Bessie Coleman, the first female pilot of African American descent.
archaic variant of 汝[ru3]

Characters with 姑 as component

mushroom

= + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) has become a nun (姑). In front of the space station (Ø1), her new life includes sitting on mats made of artificial lawn (艹) and eating mushrooms (菇) all day.

Words with 姑

girl / young woman / young lady / daughter / paternal aunt (old) / CL:個|个[ge4]
(coll.) father's married sister / paternal aunt
father's sister's husband; husband of paternal aunt; uncle
father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle
excessively tolerant / to overindulge (sb) / overly conciliatory / to seek appeasement at any price
grandfather's sister / sister of a woman's father-in-law
paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister) / (respectful form of address for a married woman used by members of her parents' family) married daughter / (brassy self-reference used by a woman in an altercation) I; me; this lady here / (coll.) form of address for an unmarried girl or woman, expressing affection or reproach
son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister)
to tolerate is to nurture an evildoer (idiom); spare the rod and spoil the child
to put something aside for the time being (idiom)
husband of father's sister / uncle

Sentences with 姑

zhòng
wèi
xia̅n
gu̅
jià
dào