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姐

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

older sister

HSK 1

Human →Relations →Family

jiě

ソ、シャ

あね、ねえさん

저

Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 且 represents the sound.

Components

女 woman+ 且 moreover =

姐 older sister

女 Meaning component

nǚ woman

woman, girl

且 Phonetic component

qiě moreover

moreover, also (post-subject)

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Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

姐

Regular

Modern

Chinese

姐 [jiě]

older sister

Japanese

姉、姐あね同音

noun older sister; elder sister

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (1)

姉は私のズボンにアイロンをかけてくれる。

My sister presses my trousers.

CHINESE WORDS (43)

小姐 [xiǎojie] #408

姐姐 [jiějie] #1,112

姐妹 [jiěmèi] #1,929

大姐 [dàjiě] #9,697

空姐 [kōngjiě] #9,345

abbr. for 空中小姐

姐夫 [jiěfu] #15,144

(coll.) older sister's husband

表姐 [biǎojiě] #11,619

older female cousin via female line

师姐 [shījiě] #12,991

senior female fellow student or apprentice

师姐 [shījiě] #12,991

senior female fellow student or apprentice

堂姐 [tángjiě] #22,543

older female patrilineal cousin

33 more items

JAPANESE WORDS (8)

⭐ 姉 [あね] #1,486

⭐ お姉さん [おねえさん] #3,154

⭐ 姉さん [ねえさん] #8,143

姉貴 [あねき] #15,913

姉御 [あねご] #31,922

姉や [ねえや] #38,274

young lady (in ref. to a maid, etc.)

姉御肌 [あねごはだ] #63,870

a woman's natural inclination to care for others

菩薩揚げ [ぼさあげ]

ceremony performed by Chinese merchants disembarking in Nagasaki (Edo period)