大姐

大姐

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	older sister
trad. (大姐)		大	姐
simp. #(大姐)		大	姐

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàjiě

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧㄝˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ ze², daai⁶ ze^2-1
• Gan (Wiktionary): 'tai⁵ jia³
• Min Nan (POJ): tōa-chiá

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàjiě
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧㄝˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàjiě
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-chieh³
    • Yale: dà-jyě
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahjiee
    • Palladius: дацзе (dacze)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ t͡ɕjɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ ze², daai⁶ ze^2-1
    • Yale: daaih jé, daaih jē
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ dze², daai⁶ dze^2-1
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ zé², dai⁶ zé^2-1
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² t͡sɛː³⁵/, /taːi̯²² t͡sɛː³⁵⁻⁵⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: 'tai⁵ jia³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˈtʰai¹¹ t͡ɕia²¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-chiá
    • Tâi-lô: tuā-tsiá
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doaxciar
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tua²²⁻²¹ t͡ɕia⁵³/

Noun

大姐

1. eldest sister
2. A polite term of address for a woman slightly older than the speaker.

   大姐還讓我們保什麼密？ [MSC, trad.]
   大姐还让我们保什么密？ [MSC, simp.]

   Dàjiě hái ràng wǒmen bǎo shénme mì? [Pinyin]

   What secret did big sister ask us to keep?

3. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) official wife (as opposed to a concubine)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 大老婆 (“official wife; primary wife”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		正室, 正房, 正妻, 嫡妻
Mandarin	Beijing	大婆兒, 大娘們兒
	Taiwan	大老婆
	Yantai (Muping)	大婆子
	Luoyang	大婆兒, 大老婆
	Xi'an	大老婆
	Lanzhou	大老婆
	Chengdu	大老婆, 大婆子
	Liuzhou	大婆
	Xuzhou	大婆兒, 大婆子, 大老婆
	Nanjing	大老婆
	Singapore	大老婆
Cantonese	Guangzhou	大婆
	Hong Kong	大婆
	Dongguan	大婆
Gan	Nanchang	大老婆
Huizhou	Jixi	大老嫗
Jin	Xinzhou	大婆子
Min Dong	Fuzhou	大婆
Min Nan	Xiamen	大某
	Quanzhou	大某
	Zhangzhou	大某, 大姐
	Singapore (Hokkien)	大某
	Leizhou	大娘
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	大婆
Wu	Shanghai (Chongming)	大老官
	Suzhou	大老媽
	Hangzhou	大老婆
	Wenzhou	正娘

Derived terms

大姐姐 老大姐 (lǎodàjiě) 臭大姐 (chòudàjiě)

大姐頭／大姐头 小大姐兒裁械子／小大姐儿裁械子 (xiǎo dàjiěr cái xiè zi)