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Kanji Detail for 姨 - "sister-in-law, aunt, concubine"
姨
- Meaning
姨 means "sister-in-law, aunt, concubine."
Sister-in-law - A wife's sister.
Aunt - One's mother's sister.
Concubine - A secondary wife.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
younger sister
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
mother/wife's sister; concubine
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
mother's sister; aunt
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
aunt, mother's sister
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Wife's sisters are called 姨. See (Erya). Anciently when feudal lords married off daughters, women of the same surname accompanied them. Hence concubines were called 姨, as they were the wife's sisters. Later became a general term for concubines. | Colloquially, mother's sisters are called 姨.
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