妹
Meanings
CC-CEDICT
- 1.younger sister
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Wiktionary
- 1.younger sister
- 2.girl; young female
- 3.daughter
- 4.a surname
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *mɯːds): semantic 女 (“female, woman”) + phonetic 未 (OC *mɯds). Probably Sino-Tibetan. Proposed etymologies: * STEDT relates it to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mi (“girl; female; feminine suffix”), whence Apatani nyimii (“girl; woman; female”), Proto-Loloish *C-mi² (“woman”), Proto-Karen *hmɨᴮ (“female; woman”). * Schuessler (2007) compares it to Burmese မ (ma., “sister”) (whence အစ်မ (acma., “elder sister”), ညီမ (nyima., “younger sister”)), Miju ku-mai- (“woman”), Tibetan བུད་མེད (bud med, “woman”), and also Mizo hmei (“concubine”) (> Mizo hmei-chhia (“woman; wife”)), which STEDT relates to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-maj (“widow, widower”) instead.
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