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姉

See also: 姊 and 姐
姉 U+59C9, 姉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59C9
← 姈
[U+59C8] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 姊 →
[U+59CA]

Translingual

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Han character

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姉 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 女十月 (VJB) or 女卜中月 (VYLB), composition ⿰女巿 (GH) or ⿰女市 (TJKV))

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 258, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6165
  • Dae Jaweon: page 523, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1029, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+59C9

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Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 姉
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
     

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 女 (“female”) + phonetic 市 (OC *djɯʔ). The character conveys the meaning of "older sister."[1]

References

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  1. ^ Digital Shinjigen 2017

Definitions

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For pronunciation and definitions of 姉 – see 姊 (“elder sister; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 姊).

Japanese

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Kanji

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姉

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. older sister

Readings

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  • Go-on: し (shi, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: し (shi, Jōyō)
  • Kun: あね (ane, 姉, Jōyō)、あねえ (anē, 姉)、あんねえ (annē, 姉)、いね (ine, 姉)、ねえ (nē, 姉)

Etymology

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Kanji in this term
姉
あね
Grade: 2
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
姐
姊

From Old Japanese of unclear derivation:

  • Probably originally a compound of 吾 (a, Eastern Old Japanese first-person pronoun) +‎ の (no, possessive particle) +‎ 兄 (ye → e, “eldest sibling”):[1]
    ⟨a no2 ye⟩ → */anʉʲɨe/ → /ane/

This word is an apophonic form of 兄 (ani, “elder brother”).[2]

  • Several other theories have also been suggested.[1]

Pronunciation

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Coordinate terms

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Noun

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姉(あね) • (ane) 

  1. elder sister

Usage notes

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  • This term conveys neither positive nor negative connotations and is often used in objective narrations. However, using it to describe someone the speaker knows personally is often considered lacking respect, where more polite forms like お姉(ねえ)さん (onēsan) are preferred.

Synonyms

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Coordinate terms

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References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsuoka Shizuo (1929) 日本古語大辞典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Archaic Japanese]‎[1] (in Japanese), アネ（姉）, page 56: “之からアニといふ語が分派した ― The word ani developed from this”
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja

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姉 (eumhun 손윗누이 자 (sonwinnu'i ja))

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Compounds

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Miyako

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Kanji

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姉

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

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Noun

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姉(あんが) (anga) 

  1. older sister

Vietnamese

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Nom glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 女 (nữ, “woman”) + phonetic 市 (thị)

Han character

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姉: Hán Việt readings: tỷ[1][2][3]
姉: Nôm readings: chị[1][4]

Noun

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  1. Nôm form of chị (“elder sister, corresponding pronoun”).

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Trần (2004).
  2. ^ Trần (1999).
  3. ^ Nguyễn (1974).
  4. ^ Nguyễn (2014).
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