姊
Meanings
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- 1.older sister
- 2.Taiwan pr. [jiě]
- 1.old variant of 姊[zǐ]
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Wiktionary
- 1.elder sister
- 2.respectful honorific used after a name for an elder sister or any female senior: Miss; Sister
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔsiʔ): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 𠂔 (Middle Chinese: t͡ʃɨ^X). From Austroasiatic origin; compare Old Mon kuṁci (“sister”) (Schuessler, 2007); connection with Proto-Tibeto-Burman *dzar (“sister (of man)”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dzər ~ tsər (Benedict, 1974) is "phonetically less direct" (ibid.).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
我喜歡狗，但我姊喜歡貓。
I like dogs, but my sister likes cats.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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