IDENTITY
姐jiěolder sister
HSK 1Top 680
CORE MEANING
older sister
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- informal
Senses
- 1.older sisterHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 女woman radical (nǚ)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰女且
- woman
- gives the sound jiě (historical)
USAGE
Common words
姐姐jiějieolder sister
小姐xiǎojiěmiss; young lady
Graded examples
姐姐在北京工作。Jiějie zài Běijīng gōngzuò.HSK2
My older sister works in Beijing.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 解
LEARNING
Memory aid
A woman (女) with the old sound zǔ (且) — jiě, older sister.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #680
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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