姒 sì elder sister Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 以 represents the sound. Components 女 女 Meaning component nǚ, nü woman 以 以 Sound component yǐ by means of Change in sound 姒 and 以 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese. 姒 *l̥əʔ 以 *ləʔ Character Evolution Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD Regular Modern ▼ More ▲ Less Historical Pronunciations Sources Character origin 漢語多功能字庫Readings & variants Unicode Historical images Academia Sinica
