阿姨

Chinese

phonetic; (final part.); (interj.)
phonetic; (final part.); (interj.); flatter; an initial particle; prefix to names of people
 
one's mother's sister; aunt
trad. (阿姨)
simp. #(阿姨)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (34) (36)
Final () (94) (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter 'a yij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔɑ/ /jiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔɑ/ /ji/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔɑ/ /jɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔa/ /ji/
Li
Rong
/ʔɑ/ /i/
Wang
Li
/ /ji/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ʔɑ/ /i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ē
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
o1 ji4

Noun

阿姨

  1. (informal, endearing) maternal aunt (mother's sister or female cousin)
    萬萬想到阿姨殺手 [MSC, trad.]
    万万想到阿姨杀手 [MSC, simp.]
    Tā wànwàn méi xiǎngdào tā de āyí shì shāshǒu. [Pinyin]
    She never suspected for a minute that her aunty was a killer.
    1. (Cantonese) one's mother's younger sister
  2. (endearing) auntie (form of address for any woman around one's mother's age)
  3. a form of address for working-age female caretakers, including nurses, cleaning ladies, live-in staff, etc.
  4. (euphemistic) mom; mother

Synonyms

See also

Proper noun

阿姨

  1. (Internet slang) Liu Zhongjing (劉仲敬), Chinese political philosopher

Derived terms

References

  • 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “阿姨”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
  • 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “阿姨”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎[2] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
  • Entry #2352”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Chinese and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.
  • 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “阿姨”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 1.
  • 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “阿姨”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 1.