姨

yí

HSK 7freq #11475

Meanings

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yí

1.mother's sister
2.aunt

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Wiktionary

1.maternal aunt (mother's sister)
2.sister-in-law (wife's sister)
3.aunt (a term of address for a woman around one's mother's age or slightly younger)
4.father's concubine

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *lil): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 夷 (OC *lil).

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Components

姨女夷

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Related words

阿姨 maternal aunt 姨母 mother's sister 姨妈 (coll.) mother's sister 婆姨 (dialect) wife 大姨 aunt (mother's eldest sister)姨婆 (strictly speaking) sister of one's maternal grandmother; (more broadly) grandaunt; sister of one's mother's mother or mother's father 细姨 concubine 姨父 husband of mother's sister 姨妹 wife's younger sister 姨夫 mother's sister's husband 姨姐 wife's elder sister 姨娘 maternal aunt