姊妹 zǐmèi

1. zǐmèi noun older and younger sisters
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 姊姊和妹妹 (CC-CEDICT '姊妹'; Guoyu '姊妹' 1)
2. zǐmèi noun females of a similar age
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '姊妹' 2)
3. zǐmèi noun older and younger brothers and sisters
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 兄弟姊妹 (Guoyu '姊妹' 3)
4. zǐmèi noun a prostitute
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As in 妓女 (Guoyu '姊妹' 4)
5. zǐmèi noun younger sister
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As in 妹妹 (Guoyu '姊妹' 5)

Contained in

• 七姊妹星团(七姊妹星團) Pleiades (M45)
• 表姊妹 father's sister's daughters; maternal female cousin
• 堂姊妹 father's brother's daughters; paternal female cousin

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷二十　　　　　志第十　　　　禮樂十 Volume 20 Treatises 10: Rites and Music 10 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 19
• 喪服 第十一 11. Mourning attire The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮 — count: 16
• 卷六十 志第三十六 禮十四 Volume 60 Treatises 36: Rites 14 History of Ming 明史 — count: 16
• 第二回 Chapter 3 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 15
• 《釋親》 Explanation of Family Relations Er Ya 爾雅 — count: 12
• 第二回 Chapter 71 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 11
• 第二回 Chapter 18 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 10
• 第二回 Chapter 49 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 9
• 第二回 Chapter 22 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 8
• 第二回 Chapter 74 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 7

Collocations

• 姑姊妹 (姑姊妹) 及姑姊妹 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 50
• 兄弟姊妹 (兄弟姊妹) 惟我兄弟姊妹束修慎行 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷五十五 列傳第二十五 夏侯湛 潘岳 張載 Volume 55 Biographies 25: Xiahou Zhan; Pan Yue; Zhang Zai — count: 15
• 姊妹在 (姊妹在) 李氏之姊妹在都邑者 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷一百九十三 列傳第一百四十三: 列女 Volume 193 Biographies 143: Exemplary Women — count: 10
• 姊妹适人 (姊妹適人) 为人后者为其姊妹适人者 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 喪服 第十一 11. Mourning attire — count: 8
• 姊妹女子 (姊妹女子) 姑姊妹女子子 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曲禮上》 Summary of the Rules of Propriety Part 1 — count: 5
• 及姊妹 (及姊妹) 母及姊妹嬰孩以上五十餘人下獄死 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十五 袁張韓周列傳 Volume 45: Biographies of Yuan, Zhang, Han, Zhou — count: 5
• 姊妹三 (姊妹三) 温姊妹三人皆有节行 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷五十七 吳書十二 虞陸張駱陸吾朱傳 Volume 57: Book of Wu 12 - Biographies of Yu, Lu, Zhang, Luo, Lu, Wu, and Zhu — count: 4
• 谓姊妹 (謂姊妹) 男子謂姊妹之子為出 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十二 光武十王列傳 Volume 42: Biographies of Ten Princes of Guangwu — count: 4
• 姊妹及 (姊妹及) 母妻姊妹及應從坐棄市者 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷25　志第20 刑法 Volume 25 Treatises 20: Punishment and Law — count: 4
• 姊妹曰 (姊妹曰) 歸謂姊妹曰 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷一百〇六 列傳第五十六: 李林甫 楊國忠 張暐 王琚 王毛仲 陳玄禮 Volume 106 Biographies 56: Li Linfu, Yang Guozhong, Zhang Wei, Wang Ju, Wang Maozhong, Chen Xuanli — count: 4