姨
yí HSK4

mother/wife's sister

姨 yí
maternal aunt noun
one's mother's sister; maternal aunt
auntie noun
a general term for a woman around the same age as one's mother
sister-in-law
(bound form) a wife's sister
concubine
(bound form) a concubine or a father's secondary wife

Cross-References

See

Has erhua variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,287th most common 25.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,812th most common 26.7 per million appears in 9% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.24 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
8.99 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+59E8

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)