姐妹
jiě​mèi HSK4

sisters

姐妹 jiě​mèi
sisters noun
sisters; elder and younger sisters; women of the same generation or status

我们是姐妹吗？

wǒ​men shì jiě​mèi ma?

Are we sisters?

[sister] noun
describes an organization or entity that has a close, formal relationship with another, such as a "sister city" or "sister school"

大阪和旧金山是姐妹城市。

dà​bǎn hé jiù​jīn​shān shì jiě​mèi chéng​shì.

Osaka and San Francisco are sister cities.

siblings noun
siblings in general; brothers and sisters

你有没有姐妹？

nǐ yǒu​méi​yǒu jiě​mèi?

Do you have any sisters?

sisters in faith
fellow female believers in a religious context; sisters

Frequency
Movie subtitles
39.9 per million appears in 12% of films
Written text
25.6 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 4

Cross-References

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)