阿嫂
Meanings
- (n.) the appellation to address one's older brother's wife; (slang)the appellation to address the wife
- girlfriend of one's friend to show respect; the girlfriend
- wife of the leader in a gang.
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Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: a1 sao3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
aa3 sou2
Cantonese word readings for 阿嫂. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
noun
- (direct address in Southern Min, both direct and indirect address in Cantonese and Hakka) sister-in-law (elder brother's wife)
- (dialectal Cantonese) sister-in-law (younger brother's wife)
- (Cantonese, Hakka, Southern Min, direct address) married woman of the same generation
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien, direct address, euphemistic) mother
- (Cantonese) wife of one's boss or superior
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