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姊 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女中難竹 (VLXH), four-corner 40427, composition ⿰女𠂔)
| trad. | 姊 | |
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| simp. # | 姊 | |
| alternative forms | 姉／姊 𡛷 | |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsiʔ) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 𠂔 (Middle Chinese: t͡ʃɨX).
From Mon-Khmer; compare Old Mon kuṁci (“sister”) (Schuessler, 2007). Schuessler (2007) notes that connection with Proto-Tibeto-Burman *dzar (“sister (of man)”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dzər ~ tsər (Benedict, 1974) is "phonetically less direct".
姊
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姊 (eumhun 손윗누이 자 (sonwinnu'i ja))
姊: Hán Nôm readings: tỉ, tỷ, chị
honorific for a woman older than speaker ("older sister" but not necessarily blood-related)