yí
mother/wife's sister
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 夷 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 姨
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
maternal aunt | ||
maternal aunt | ||
aunt | ||
sister-in-law | ||
sister-in-law |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 8.7618% of movies
1812th most common character in movies
2287th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+59E8 |
Shuowen | “姨，妻之女弟同出為姨。从女，夷聲。” |
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