姐

See also: 姊 and 姉

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 且

Han character

姐 (radical 38 女+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 女月一 (VBM), four-corner 4741₀, composition ⿰女且)

1. elder sister
2. young lady

References

• KangXi: page 258, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6172
• Dae Jaweon: page 524, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1036, character 8
• Unihan data for U+59D0

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Cantonese

Hanzi

姐 (Jyutping ze2, Yale je2)

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Japanese

Kanji

姐

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: そ (so), しゃ (sha)
• Kun: あね (ane), あねご (anego), ねえ (nee), ねえさん (neesan)

Noun

姐 (hiragana あね, romaji ane)

1. Alternative form of 姉

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Korean

Hanja

姐 (jeo) (hangeul 저, revised jeo, McCune-Reischauer chŏ)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

姐 (Pinyin jiě (jie3), Wade-Giles chieh³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

姐 (tả, thư)

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