姐 (jiě)
older sister
How 姐 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 女 — woman
- Traditional
- 姐
- Simplified
- 姐 (unchanged)
Common words using 姐
- 姐姐 jiějie
- older sister; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 大姐 dàjiě
- big sister; elder sister; older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker)
- 姐夫 jiěfu
- (informal) older sister's husband
- 姐妹 jiěmèi
- sisters
- 小姐 xiǎojie
- young lady; miss; (slang) prostitute
- 表姐 biǎojiě
- older female cousin via female line
- 唉姐 āijiě
- granny (dialect)
- 堂姐 tángjiě
- older female cousin (sharing paternal grandfather)
- 大小姐 dàxiǎojie
- eldest daughter of an affluent family; (polite) your daughter; bossy or indulged young woman
- 姨姐 yíjiě
- wife's elder sister; sister-in-law
- 學姐 xuéjiě
- senior or older female schoolmate
- 師姐 shījiě
- senior female fellow student or apprentice; daughter (older than oneself) of one's teacher
姐 in a sentence
王小姐，這是妳的文件。
Wáng xiǎojiě, zhè shì nǐ de wénjiàn.
“Miss Wang, this is your document.”
How common is 姐?
姐 is the 828th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 86% of all running text.
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