(jiě jie) - older sister in Mandarin

jiějie

Traditional: 姐姐

HSK 2

#740 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

older sister

Word origin

姐姐 means 'older sister'; it reduplicates 姐 (jiě). 姐 is a phono-semantic compound of 女 (the woman radical) and 且 (qiě) as phonetic. Reduplication is the common pattern for kinship terms.

Origin: compound
Root: 姐 (jiě: 女 woman radical + 且 phonetic), reduplicated

Stroke order

姐

Examples

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My older sister is a doctor.

。

She has two older sisters.

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My older sister lives in Shanghai.

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My elder sister is three years older than me.

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My elder sister just had a baby.

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This word is part of lesson 15.