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older sister / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
big sister / elder sister / older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker)
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姐* | 姐* | *姐
older sister
HSK 1
(coll.) older brother's wife; sister-in-law
HSK 7-9
sister-in-law / wife's older sister
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姊* | 姊* | *姊
older sister / Taiwan pr. [jie3]
older sister's husband / brother-in-law
(older and younger) sisters / sister (school, city etc)
(coll.) older sister's husband
father's oldest sister / husband's older sister / sister-in-law
older sister / Taiwan pr. [jie3 jie5]
mother's eldest sister (older than one's mother) / (coll.) (euphemism) Aunt Flo (i.e. menstrual period)
older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman)
older brother's wife / sister-in-law / (polite address to a younger married woman) sister
older sister's husband
(polite) my older sister
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姑* | 姑* | *姑
paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嫂* | 嫂* | *嫂
(bound form) older brother's wife; sister-in-law
(strictly speaking) sister of one's maternal grandmother; (more broadly) grandaunt; sister of one's mother's mother or mother's father / (Tw) (old) husband's maternal aunt
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姒* | 姒* | *姒
wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old)
older sister's husband
sisters-in-law (old) / various concubines of a husband (old)
older sister
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *媭* | 媭* | *媭
(dialect) elder sister (old)
(female usage) older sister (loanword from Korean "eonni")
husband of wife's older sister


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