小姨

Chinese

		small; tiny; few small; tiny; few; young	one's mother's sister; aunt
trad. (小姨)		小	姨
simp. #(小姨)		小	姨

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiǎoyí

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu² ji⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎoyí
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǎoyí
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao³-i²
    • Yale: syǎu-yí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheauyi
    • Palladius: сяои (sjaoi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ i³⁵/
    • Homophones:

      [Show/Hide]
      edit edit 小姨 小遺／小遗

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: siu² ji⁴
    • Yale: síu yìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu² ji⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu² yi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯³⁵ jiː²¹/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 小兒／小儿 小姨

Noun

小姨

1. mother's youngest sister
2. sister-in-law (wife's younger sister)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 小姨 (“mother's youngest sister”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		小姨
Cantonese	Guangzhou	姨仔
	Hong Kong	細姨
Hakka	Meixian	滿姨
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	滿姨
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	滿姨, 滿姨仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	滿姨
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	滿姨
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	滿姨
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	滿姨
Northern Min	Jian'ou	小姨嫲
Southern Min	Manila (Hokkien)	尾姨

Dialectal synonyms of 小姨子 (“sister-in-law (wife's younger sister)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		妻弟
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		小姨子, 小姨, 姨妹
Mandarin	Harbin	小姨子
	Yantai (Muping)	小姨子
	Jinan	小姨子
	Luoyang	小姨子
	Wanrong	小姨子
	Xi'an	小姨子
	Yinchuan	小姨子
	Ürümqi	小姨子
	Wuhan	姨妹
	Chengdu	小姨妹, 小姨妹兒
	Guiyang	姨妹
	Liuzhou	小姨子
	Xuzhou	小姨子
	Yangzhou	小姨子
	Nanjing	小姨子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	姨仔
	Hong Kong	姨仔
	Dongguan	姨仔
Gan	Nanchang	小姨子
	Lichuan	小姨崽 non-face-to-face
	Pingxiang	姨仔 also for elder sister
Hakka	Yudu	小姨 face-to-face, 小姨子
Huizhou	Jixi	小姨
Jin	Taiyuan	小姨子
	Xinzhou	小姨子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	小姨嫲
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	細姨
Southern Min	Xiamen	姨仔, 小姨仔
	Quanzhou	姨仔
	Zhangzhou	姨仔, 小姨仔
	Tainan	姨仔 GT
	Manila (Hokkien)	姨仔
	Chaozhou	妻姨, 細姨
Wu	Shanghai	阿姨 non-face-to-face, 小姨子 non-face-to-face
	Danyang	小姨
	Hangzhou	小姨媽
	Ningbo	小姨
	Jinhua	小姨
Xiang	Changsha	姨妹子
	Loudi	姨妹
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

See also

• 大姨 (dàyí)