IDENTITY
妹mèiyounger sister
HSK 1Top 920
CORE MEANING
younger sister
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- informal
Senses
- 1.younger sisterHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 女woman radical (nǚ)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰女未
- woman
- gives the sound mèi (historical)
USAGE
Common words
妹妹mèimeiyounger sister
姐妹jiěmèisisters
Graded examples
妹妹比我小两岁。Mèimei bǐ wǒ xiǎo liǎng suì.HSK2
My younger sister is two years younger than me.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 味
LEARNING
Memory aid
A woman (女) not yet (未) grown — the younger sister.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #920
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
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