姒 - Dong Chinese dictionary

sì

elder sister

Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 以 represents the sound.

Components

女 Meaning component

nǚ, rǔ

woman

以 Sound component

yǐ

by means of

姒 and 以 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.姒 /*l̥əʔ/
以 /*ləʔ/

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

sì

wife of elder brother; wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old); elder sister (old)

Sì

surname Si

Most common words with 姒

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	姒	elder sister (old)
	褒姒	Baosi, concubine of King You of Zhou 周幽王[ZhōuYōuwáng] and one of the famous Chinese beauties

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*l̥əʔ	syiX	shǐ	elder sister

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5214th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	7
Unicode	U+59D2

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