姐夫 jiěfu brother-in-law (older sister's husband) Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 姐夫 jiěfu brother-in-law (older sister's husband) noun term used by younger siblings to address their older sister's husband 他后来就成为了我的姐夫。 tā hòulái jiù chéngwéi le wǒde jiěfu. He later became my brother-in-law. son-in-law (archaic) a term used by parents-in-law to address their son-in-law client (archaic) a term used by a brothel owner or prostitute to address a male client brother-in-law (husband's older brother) dialectal term for a husband's older brother Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 1.85 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 5.78 per million Cross-References Classifier 个 gè位 wèiSynonym 姐丈 jiězhàngVariant of 姊夫 zǐfu Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
姐夫 jiěfu brother-in-law (older sister's husband) noun term used by younger siblings to address their older sister's husband 他后来就成为了我的姐夫。 tā hòulái jiù chéngwéi le wǒde jiěfu. He later became my brother-in-law. son-in-law (archaic) a term used by parents-in-law to address their son-in-law client (archaic) a term used by a brothel owner or prostitute to address a male client brother-in-law (husband's older brother) dialectal term for a husband's older brother Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 1.85 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 5.78 per million Cross-References Classifier 个 gè位 wèiSynonym 姐丈 jiězhàngVariant of 姊夫 zǐfu Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)