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姊

zǐ

Character

What 姊 means

1. older sister
2. Taiwan pr. jiě

Other readings

姊 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• zǐold variant of {姊|zǐ}

Example sentences

• 我没有姊妹。
  I don't have any sisters.
• 精工没有姊妹。
  Seiko has no sisters.
• 她是我的姊妹。
  She's my sister.
• 这是我姊姊的照片。
  This is a picture of my sister.
• 她不如她姊姊漂亮。
  She's not as beautiful as her sister.
• 你有没有兄弟姊妹？
  Do you have brothers and sisters?

Words starting with 姊

• 姊妹zǐ mèi(older and younger) sisters; sister (school, city etc)
• 姊姊zǐ zǐolder sister; Taiwan pr. jiě jie
• 姊夫zǐ fuolder sister's husband
• 姊丈zǐ zhàngolder sister's husband

Words containing 姊

• 堂姊táng zǐolder female patrilineal cousin
• 家姊jiā zǐmy sister
• 长姊zhǎng zǐolder sister
• 堂姊妹táng zǐ mèifather's brother's daughters; paternal female cousin
• 表姊妹biǎo zǐ mèifather's sister's daughters; maternal female cousin
• 七姊妹星团Qī zǐ mèi xīng tuánPleiades M45

Characters that look like 姊

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 坦tǎnflat; open-hearted; level
• 邮yóupost (office); mail
• 姆mǔ(old) female tutor; used in 保姆
• 妞niūgirl
• 绅shēnmember of gentry
• 妍yánbeautiful

Sounds the same

Read zǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 仔(bound form) (of domestic animals or fowl) young; (bound form) fine; detailed
• 紫purple; violet
• 子son; child; seed
• 梓Chinese catalpa (Catalpa ovata), a tree that serves as a symbol of one's hometown and…
• 籽seed (of a plant)
• 滓(bound form) dregs; sediment
• 笫bamboo mat; bed mat
• 秭billion
• 耔hoe up soil around plants
• 呰to slander; to blame; to revile
• 矷(a kind of stone)
• 胏dried meat with bone