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maternal aunt / step-mother / childcare worker / nursemaid / woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child) / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
mother's eldest sister (older than one's mother) / (coll.) (euphemism) Aunt Flo (i.e. menstrual period)
distant relatives
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)
sister-in-law / wife's older sister
mother's youngest sister / wife's younger sister; sister-in-law
mother's sister / maternal aunt
concubine
(coll.) wife's younger sister; sister-in-law (term not used to directly address her)
maternal aunt / father's concubine (old)
auntie, third eldest of sisters in mother's family
auntie, eldest of sisters in mother's family
(dialect) wife / married woman
mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister
(coll.) mother's sister / maternal aunt
wife's younger sister / sister-in-law
husband of mother's sister / uncle
auntie, youngest of sisters in mother's family
wife's elder sister / 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
mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister
(coll.) sanitary towel
auntie, second eldest of sisters in mother's family
concubine
(neologism c. 2017) (slang) kindly, indulgent smile (usu. on the face of a woman)
mother's mother's sister / great-aunt
father's mother's sister (coll.) / great aunt


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