"妹" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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Strokes 3
Composition
Strokes 8
Structure
Decomp. 女未
Prononciation
Mandarin mèi
Entry Methods
Pinyin mei4
Kanji /
Cangjie
VJD
女十木
Sijiao 4549.0
Wubi VFIY
CNS 11643 1-4C68
Encodages (hexa)
Unicode U+59B9
GB2312 C3C3
BIG5 A966
 mèi younger sister
Results beginning with 妹
 mèi mei younger sister / young woman / CL:個|个[ge4]
 mèi zi (dialect) younger sister / girl
 mèi fu younger sister's husband
 mèi zhǐ (Internet slang) (pun on 妹子[mei4 zi5])
 mèi mei tóu bob (hairstyle)
Approximate Results for 妹
 jiě mèi sisters / siblings / sister (school, city etc)
 xiǎo mèi little sister / girl / (Tw) young female employee working in a low-level role dealing with the public (assistant, waitress, attendant etc)
 là mèi hot chick / sexy girl / abbr. LM
 zǐ mèi (older and younger) sisters / sister (school, city etc)
 xiōng mèi brother(s) and sister(s)
 biǎo mèi younger female cousin via female line
 shī mèi junior female student or apprentice / daughter (younger than oneself) of one's teacher
 xué mèi junior or younger female schoolmate
 dì mèi younger sibling / younger brother's wife
 liàng mèi pretty girl
 ā mèi younger sister
 yí mèi wife's younger sister / sister-in-law
 bǎ mèi to pick up a girl / to get a girl
 liáo mèi (coll.) to flirt / to hit on girls
 lóng mèi ugly girl (slang) (Tw)
 Tái mèi local girl (referring to a Taiwanese benshengren 本省人[ben3 sheng3 ren2])
 tài mèi girl delinquent / tomboy / schoolgirl tough
 táng mèi younger female patrilineal cousin
 yòu mèi younger sister
 zhèng mèi (Tw) beautiful woman / sexy woman
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 xiǎo mèi mei little sister / little girl / (coll.) vulva
 dǎ gōng mèi young female worker
 jiě mèi liǎ The Sisters (short story)
 yī mèi r email (loanword) / see 電子郵件|电子邮件[dian4 zi3 you2 jian4]
 jiě mèi huā beautiful sisters
 dà lù mèi (in Taiwan, Hong Kong or Macao) girl from the mainland / (Tw) Fushan lettuce 福山萵苣|福山莴苣[Fu2 shan1 wo1 ju4]
 biǎo dì mèi wife of younger male cousin via female line / younger cousins via female line
 biǎo jiě mèi female cousins via female line
 biǎo mèi fu husband of younger female cousin via female line
 biǎo zǐ mèi father's sister's daughters / maternal female cousin
 kǒng lóng mèi ugly girl (slang)
 là mèi zi sassy young woman or pretty girl (esp. one from China's spice belt: Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Yunnan)
 táng dì mèi wife of younger male cousin via male line / younger cousins via male line
 táng mèi fu husband of younger female cousin via male line
 táng zǐ mèi father's brother's daughters / paternal female cousin
 xián shuǐ mèi (dialect) prostitute from Guangdong (esp. one in Shanghai before the Revolution) (loanword from "handsome maid")
 yīng huā mèi (coll.) Japanese girl
 yuán jiāo mèi prostitute (slang) / see also 援助交際|援助交际[yuan2 zhu4 jiao1 ji4]
 Zhāng Huì mèi A-Mei, aka Gulilai Amit (1972-), aboriginal Taiwanese pop singer
 xiōng dì jiě mèi brothers and sisters / siblings
 luán shēng jiě mèi twin sisters
 tóng bāo xiōng mèi sibling
 Qī zǐ mèi xīng tuán Pleiades M45
  University Twinning and networking scheme / University Twinning
 jiě mèi guān xì xié dìng twinning agreement
  Sisterhood is Global Institute
 jiě mèi xié zuò jī céng zǔ zhī Grassroots Organizations Operating Together in Sisterhood
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