Character Details
| sister | Ascii: 20960 | w233 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 姐 | jiě | gee:eh | 3 | 女 (woman) + 且 (moreover) → older sister | 姐 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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An older sister in a rich Chinese household is often treated with such care that she is like a woman who is put on a shelf (shelves) like an ornament. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
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| - Hello miss | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| — - 女 | nǚ | woman | woman | woman kneeling | 女 好 妈 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 女 (woman) + 且 (moreover) → older sister | 女 (semantic) | 且 (phonetic) | phonetic from 且 | ||||||||