姉
姉 — ja
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 손윗누이 자
- Romanization
- ja
- English
- elder sister
- Mandarin
- zǐ
- Japanese on'yomi
- シ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- あね はは
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,473 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 女 (38, 5 residual)
- Unicode
- U+59C9
Parts that make up 姉
How 姉 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 姉 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 女, 市.
Japanese words with 姉
- 姉あね older sister; elder sister
- 姉妹しまい sisters
- 姉さんねえさん older sister; elder sister; young lady
- 義姉ぎし sister-in-law (spouse's older sister or older brother's wife); older stepsister; older adopted sister
- 兄姉けいし older brother and older sister
- 実姉じっし biological older sister; real elder sister
- 従姉妹いとこ cousin (female)
- お姉さんおねえさん older sister; elder sister; young lady
- 姉貴あねき elder sister; older female friend
- 姉御あねご elder sister
- 姉上あねうえ older sister
- 姉弟してい older sister and younger brother
Other hanja read “자”
Other hanja with radical 女
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