I don't have any sisters.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
姊妹
(older and younger) sisters
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(older and younger) sisters
02
sister (school, city etc)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 姊妹 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 姊妹 appears in 23 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
She's my sister.
Do you have brothers and sisters?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 姊妹.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 姊妹.
Directly before
- 兄弟姊妹4
- 的姊妹4
- 没有姊妹3
- 有姊妹3
- 三个姊妹2
Directly after
- 姊妹吗2
- 姊妹并非1
- 姊妹俩1
- 姊妹将会1
- 姊妹之一1
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 姊妹
What does 姊妹 mean in Chinese?
姊妹 (zǐmèi) means (older and younger) sisters.
How do you pronounce 姊妹?
姊妹 is pronounced zǐmèi.
Is 姊妹 an HSK word?
姊妹 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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