妹 (mèi)
younger sister
How 妹 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 女 — woman
- Traditional
- 妹
- Simplified
- 妹 (unchanged)
Common words using 妹
- 妹妹 mèimei
- younger sister; fig. younger woman (esp. girl friend or rival); CL:個|个[ge4]
- 妹子 mèizi
- designation towards a girl younger than oneself
- 姐妹 jiěmèi
- sisters
- 學妹 xuémèi
- junior or younger female schoolmate
- 小妹 xiǎomèi
- little sister; girl
- 表妹 biǎomèi
- younger female cousin via female line
- 伊妹兒 yīmèir
- email (loanword); see 電子郵件|电子邮件[dian4 zi3 you2 jian4]
- 兄妹 xiōngmèi
- brother(s) and sister(s)
- 台妹 táimèi
- local girl (referring to a Taiwanese benshengren 本省人[ben3 sheng3 ren2])
- 堂妹 tángmèi
- younger female cousin (sharing paternal grandfather)
- 太妹 tàimèi
- girl delinquent; tomboy; schoolgirl tough
- 妹夫 mèifu
- younger sister's husband
妹 in a sentence
我妹妹在念高中。
Wǒ mèimei zài niàn gāozhōng.
“My younger sister is in high school.”
How common is 妹?
妹 is the 1,183rd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 91.7% of all running text.
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