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Chinese symbol for “matriarch”

大姐大
dà jiě dà
female gang leader; the top woman in her field; doyenne; matriarch

The closest CC-CEDICT match for matriarch is 大姐大 (dà jiě dà), defined as: female gang leader; the top woman in her field; doyenne; matriarch.

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Characters and stroke order

大 dà
big, great, vast, high, deep
radical 37 ⼤ · 3 strokes
姐 jiě
elder sister; miss, young lady
radical 38 ⼥ · 8 strokes
大
大 dà
big, great, vast, high, deep
radical 37 ⼤ · 3 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 大姐大.

WordPinyinMeaning
大学 (大學)dà xuéuniversity; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ)
大家dà jiāeveryone; influential family
大量dà liànggreat amount; large quantity
大陆 (大陸)dà lùcontinent; mainland; 块 (kuài)
大会 (大會)dà huìgeneral assembly; general meeting
重大zhòng dàgreat; important
小姐xiǎo jieyoung lady; miss
姐姐jiě jieolder sister; 个 (gè)

See also: Japanese symbol for “matriarch”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.