(mèi) - younger sister (bound) in Mandarin
mèiTraditional: 妹
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Translation
younger sister (bound)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character pairing the woman radical 女 (nǚ) with 未 (wèi) as the phonetic, denoting a younger sister.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 女 (woman radical) + 未 (wèi, phonetic)
Stroke order
妹
Examples
七。
My younger sister is seven.
。
She is my younger sister.
。
We are sisters.
。
She is my younger sister.
。
The third younger sister is very pretty.
妹 (mèi) means younger sister, reduplicated as 妹妹 (mèimei) for everyday use.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 妹.
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