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姐姐

jiě jie 3–5

older sister

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 2.0 level 2 · HSK 3.0 level 1
Characters
2
姐 · 姐
Syllables
2
jiě jie
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,513

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 姐jiě8 strokesHSK 1elder sister, young lady
  • 姐jiě8 strokesHSK 1elder sister, young lady

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 她是我的姐姐。

    Tā shì wǒ de jiě jie

    She's my older sister.

  • 我还有个姐姐。

    Wǒ hái yǒu ge jiě jie

    I still have another sister.

  • 我的姐姐有工作。

    Wǒ de jiě jie yǒu gōng zuò

    My sister has a job.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 姐姐. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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