弟妹

Chinese
younger brother younger sister
trad. (弟妹) 弟 妹
simp. #(弟妹) 弟 妹
anagram 妹弟

Pronunciation

Noun

弟妹

  1. younger brothers and sisters; younger sibling
  2. (colloquial) sister-in-law (younger brother's wife)

Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 弟婦 (“sister-in-law (younger brother's wife)”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 弟婦, 弟媳
Mandarin Beijing 兄弟媳婦兒, 弟妹, 小嬸兒
Taiwan 弟媳, 弟婦, 弟媳婦
Jinan 兄弟媳婦, 弟妹
Xi'an 兄弟媳婦兒
Wuhan 弟媳婦, 弟媳
Chengdu 兄弟媳婦兒, 弟媳, 弟妹
Yangzhou 弟媳婦
Hefei 弟媳婦
Cantonese Guangzhou 弟嫂, 弟媳, 弟嬸, 阿妗
Hong Kong 弟婦, 阿妗
Foshan 阿妗
Foshan (Shunde) 弟婦
Zhongshan (Shiqi) 弟婦
Zhuhai (Doumen, Shangheng Tanka) 阿嫂
Taishan 阿嫂
Kaiping (Chikan) 阿嫂
Dongguan 弟婦
Yangjiang 弟嬸, 小嬸
Gan Nanchang 老弟新婦, 老弟媳婦
Hakka Meixian 老弟心臼
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 老弟心臼
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 老弟心臼
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 老弟心臼
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 老弟嫂
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 老弟新婦
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 老弟新婦
Jin Taiyuan 弟媳婦, 弟妹, 弟媳婦子
Northern Min Jian'ou 弟新婦
Eastern Min Fuzhou 弟新婦, 弟人
Southern Min Xiamen 小嬸
Quanzhou 小嬸
Zhangzhou 小嬸, 細妗仔
Taipei 小嬸
New Taipei (Sanxia) 小嬸, 弟婦仔
Kaohsiung 弟婦仔
Yilan 弟婦仔
Changhua (Lukang) 小嬸, 弟婦仔
Taichung 弟婦仔, 小嬸
Tainan 妗仔, 弟婦仔
Hsinchu 小嬸
Kinmen 小嬸
Manila (Hokkien) 小嬸
Chaozhou 小姆
Shantou 弟嫂
Wu Shanghai 弟新婦
Suzhou 弟媳婦
Wenzhou 弟媳婦
Xiang Changsha 老弟媳婦, 老弟嫂
Shuangfeng 老弟嫂

Japanese
Kanji in this term
弟 妹
てい
Grade: 2		 まい
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) てーまい [tèémáí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [te̞ːma̠i]

Noun

弟(てい)妹(まい) • (teimai) 

  1. younger brothers and sisters; younger sibling

See also

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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