Nancy looks like my sister.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
大姐
big sister
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
big sister
02
elder sister
03
older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 大姐 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 大姐 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 大姐.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 大姐.
Directly before
- 的大姐1
Directly after
- 大姐下1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 大姐
What does 大姐 mean in Chinese?
大姐 (dàjiě) means big sister.
How do you pronounce 大姐?
大姐 is pronounced dàjiě.
Is 大姐 an HSK word?
大姐 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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