姨 — Chinese character
姨
yí
aunt, mother's sister
- Pinyin
- yí
- Radical
- 38 ⼥ (Woman)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 女 夷
- Formation
- pictophonetic — woman; meaning component 女; sound component 夷
- Japanese
- 姨 as a kanji
Common words with 姨
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阿姨 | ā yí | maternal aunt; term of address for a woman of one's mother's generation |
| 姨妈 (姨媽) | yí mā | (coll.) mother's sister; maternal aunt |
| 小姨子 | xiǎo yí zi | (coll.) wife's younger sister; sister-in-law (term not used to directly address her) |
| 姨母 | yí mǔ | mother's sister; maternal aunt |
| 大姨 | dà yí | aunt (mother's eldest sister); (respectful term of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) |
| 姨夫 | yí fu | mother's sister's husband; husband of mother's sister |
| 大姨妈 (大姨媽) | dà yí mā | mother's eldest sister (older than one's mother); (coll.) (euphemism) Aunt Flo (i.e. menstrual period) |
| 姨丈 | yí zhàng | mother's sister's husband; husband of mother's sister |
| 姨父 | yí fu | husband of mother's sister; uncle |
| 姨娘 | yí niáng | maternal aunt; father's concubine (old) |
| 姨婆 | yí pó | (strictly speaking) sister of one's maternal grandmother; (more broadly) grandaunt; sister of one's mother's mother or mother's father; (Tw) (old) husband's mat |
| 小姨 | xiǎo yí | mother's youngest sister; wife's younger sister; sister-in-law |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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