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姉

Older Sister
Stroke count: 8

Readings

On readingシ
Kun readingあね

Meanings

  1. older Sister
  2. elder sisterRtK

Synonyms

シスター姉さん義姉

Popular Usage

お姉さん姉妹従姉妹

Radicals and components

Radical女woman
Components
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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woman (女) · market · top hat (亠) · towel

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 442

Compound words

彼は男まさりの姉に育てられた。あね
He was bought up by his strong willed sister.tatoeba
彼は私を姉と間違えたに違いない。あね
I'm sure he mistook me for my sister.tatoeba
彼は私の姉と結婚した。あね
He married my sister.tatoeba
彼は姉に部屋にペンキを塗るのを手伝ってもらった。あね
He got his sister to help him paint his room.tatoeba
彼は男まさりの姉に育てられた。
He was bought up by his strong willed sister.tatoeba
彼は小説の姉妹編を執筆中だ。
He is now writing a sister volume to his novel.tatoeba
彼は私を姉と間違えたに違いない。
I'm sure he mistook me for my sister.tatoeba
彼は私の姉と結婚した。
He married my sister.tatoeba
同2号と姉妹種。
It is a sister variety of Hatton nishiki No.2.wiki
姉妹都市・提携都市
Sister and associated citieswiki

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

それは、その子供の姉たち、妹たち、それから、従姉妹たちかと想像される
それは、そのこどものあねたち、いもうとたち、それから、いとこたちかとそうぞうされるIt's probably the sisters, younger sisters, and cousins of that child.
来年の春、姉が結婚します。
らいねんのはる、あねがけっこんします。Next spring, my older sister will get married.
今姉は東京に一人で住んでいます。
こんあねはとうきょうにいちにんですんでいます。My older sister now lives alone in Tokyo.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

8 strokes

Older sister. 女 (woman) + 市 — gives the sound 'shi'. An older sister.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 姉

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