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阿姨 (ā yí): meaning and stroke order

阿姨 (ā yí) means maternal aunt, step-mother, childcare worker, nursemaid.

阿姨

Simplified
阿姨
Traditional
阿姨 (same form)
Pinyin
ā yí

Stroke order of 阿姨

阿

  • Ā abbr. for country names that begin with 阿[a1]: Algeria 阿爾及利亞|阿尔及利亚[A1 er3 ji2 li4 ya4], Afghanistan 阿富汗[A1 fu4 han4] etc
  • ā prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity; used in transliteration
  • ē (literary) to flatter; to curry favor with
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

姨

  • yí mother's sister; aunt
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 阿姨

  1. ā yí
    • maternal aunt
    • step-mother
    • childcare worker
    • nursemaid
    • woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child)
    • CL:個|个[ge4]

Radicals of the characters

阿
Radical 阜 (Kangxi radical 170) · 8 strokes · 阝 on the left, 可 on the right
姨
Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 9 strokes · 女 on the left, 夷 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

阿姨 in our stories

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  • 他推开门，看见弹琴的是学校的清洁工王阿姨。

    tā tuīkāi mén kànjiàn tán qín de shì xuéxiào de qīngjiégōng Wáng āyí

    He pushed the door open and saw that the player was Auntie Wang, the school cleaner.

    From the story The piano at midnight HSK 4

  • 卖了三十年豆浆的冯阿姨站了起来，声音有些发抖。

    mài le sānshí nián dòujiāng de Féng āyí zhàn le qǐlai shēngyīn yǒuxiē fādǒu

    Auntie Feng, who had sold soy milk for thirty years, stood up, her voice trembling a little.

    From the story The market hearing HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 评论里全是同一句话：“阿姨才是真正的健身教练！”

    pínglùn lǐ quán shì tóng yí jù huà āyí cái shì zhēnzhèng de jiànshēn jiàoliàn

    The comments all said the same thing: "Auntie is the real fitness coach!"

    From the story Pulling noodles is a workout too HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 阿姨

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).