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older sister / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *家* | 家* | *家
home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
younger sister / young woman / 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
sisters / siblings / sister (school, city etc)
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姐* | 姐* | *姐
older sister
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *妹* | 妹* | *妹
younger sister
HSK 1
mother's eldest sister (older than one's mother) / (coll.) (euphemism) Aunt Flo (i.e. menstrual period)
brothers and sisters / siblings
brother(s) and sister(s)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姨* | 姨* | *姨
mother's sister / aunt
HSK 7-9
aunt (mother's eldest sister) / (respectful term of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother)
(coll.) older brother's wife; sister-in-law
HSK 7-9
(dialect) younger sister / girl
sister-in-law / wife's older sister
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers / half (brother or sister)
(coll.) father's married sister / paternal aunt
sister's daughter; niece
husbands of sisters / brothers-in-law / extremely close (of a relationship)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姊* | 姊* | *姊
older sister / Taiwan pr. [jie3]
mother's youngest sister / wife's younger sister; sister-in-law
sister's son / wife's sibling's son
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *甥* | 甥* | *甥
(bound form) sister's son; nephew
older sister's husband / brother-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
father's sister's husband; husband of paternal aunt; uncle
(humble) my younger sister
mother's sister / maternal aunt
younger sister's husband
wives of brothers; sisters-in-law
(older and younger) sisters / sister (school, city etc)
(coll.) older sister's husband
little sister / little girl / (coll.) vulva
father's oldest sister / husband's older sister / sister-in-law
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), English novelist, eldest of three Brontë sisters, author of Jane Eyre 簡·愛|简·爱
husband's sister / (coll.) Buddhist nun
(coll.) wife's younger sister; sister-in-law (term not used to directly address her)
lit. to present oneself confidently to the emperor, without makeup (as did the sister of Yang Guifei 楊貴妃|杨贵妃) (idiom) / fig. (of a woman) to show one's natural features, without makeup / to present oneself just as one is, without artifice
nun or sister (of the Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox churches)
older sister / Taiwan pr. [jie3 jie5]
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
(polite) father's sisters
older sister's husband
son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister)
auntie, third eldest of sisters in mother's family
auntie, eldest of sisters in mother's family
(polite) my older sister
(coll.) husband's younger sister; sister-in-law
to become sworn brothers or sisters / sworn (brothers)
father's sister / paternal aunt
beautiful sisters
husband of father's sister / uncle
mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister
(coll.) mother's sister / maternal aunt
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姑* | 姑* | *姑
paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary)
(of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers / half (brother or sister)
wife's younger sister / sister-in-law
husband of mother's sister / uncle
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嫂* | 嫂* | *嫂
(bound form) older brother's wife; sister-in-law
auntie, youngest of sisters in mother's family
my big sister (Internet slang version of 我的姐)
sister's daughter / wife's sibling's daughter
twin sisters
son of grandfather's sister / son of grandmother's brother or sister / father's younger male cousin / (Hong Kong slang) mainlander
sister's daughter's husband
wife's elder sister / sister-in-law
younger sister
(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
father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle
grandfather's sister / sister of a woman's father-in-law
wife's brother's wife, sister-in-law
(Tw) female gang leader / female boss / big sister
sister's son's wife
(polite) my sister-in-law
mother's father's sister (coll.) / great aunt
mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姒* | 姒* | *姒
wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old)
auntie, second eldest of sisters in mother's family
brother-in-law (younger sister's husband)
little sister / girl / (Tw) young female employee working in a low-level role dealing with the public (assistant, waitress, attendant etc)
younger brother's wife; sister-in-law
older sister's husband
sisters-in-law (old) / various concubines of a husband (old)
my sister
father's youngest sister / husband's younger sister; sister-in-law
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *媧* | 媧* | *媧
surname Wa / sister of legendary emperor Fuxi 伏羲
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *婭* | 婭* | *婭
(literary) term of address between husbands of sisters / (used to transliterate foreign names) / (used in Chinese women's names)
younger sister
father's father's sister / great aunt
father's sister's daughters / maternal female cousin
mother's mother's sister / great-aunt
younger brother's wife / sister-in-law
older sister
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嬃* | 嬃* | *嬃
(dialect) elder sister (old)
(female usage) older sister (loanword from Korean "eonni")
father's mother's sister (coll.) / great aunt
husband of wife's younger sister
husband of wife's older sister


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