姪

姪 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 女一戈土 (VMIG), four-corner 4141₄, composition ⿰女至)

• 𭉐

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 260, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6226
• Dae Jaweon: page 526, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1043, character 11
• Unihan data for U+59EA

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *diːɡ, *diɡ) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 至 (OC *tjiɡs).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b/m-ləj (“grandchild; nephew”) + *-t (“nominalizing final”). Cognate with Burmese မြေး (mre:, “grandchild”).

姪

1. fraternal nephew or niece (originally only of a woman, but also of a man after the Jìn dynasty)
2. child of a (male) friend in the same generation
3. Used to call oneself before someone in one's father's generation.

• 甥 (shēng)

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00921

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

• Go-on: でち (dechi); じち (jichi)^{←ぢち (diti, historical)}
• Kan-on: てつ (tetsu); ちつ (chitsu)
• Kun: めい (mei, 姪)^{←めひ (mefi, 姪, historical)}; おい (oi, 姪)^{←をひ (wofi, 姪, historical)}

/me1hi/: [mepi] → [meɸi] → [mewi] → [mei]. Initial /me/ is cognate with 女 (me₁, “female”).

• (Tokyo) め​い [méꜜì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [me̞i]

姪(めい) • (mei) ^{←めひ (mefi)?}

1. the daughter of one's sibling; a niece

• 甥(おい) (oi)

• 姪御(めいご) (meigo)
• 姪(めい)っ子(こ) (meikko)
• 孫姪(うまごめい) (umagomei)

姪 • (jil, jeol) (hangeul 질, 절, revised jil, jeol, McCune–Reischauer chil, chŏl)

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姪: Hán Nôm readings: đẹt

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