姉 elder sister 女,亠,巾,丶,帀,巿,市,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

シ
SHI

Kun-yomi

あね　･　はは
a　ne　･　ha　ha

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

女

ジョ,ニョ,ニョウ,おんな,め female

　ROD and LOOSENED with ERECTION
…or: HORIZONTAL with NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED LOOSE FOOT and NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT BENT FOR WRAPPING
…or: LOOSENED with GASPING TENSION
　

亠

トウ,× emphasis on rod, palming, under control, covered

　THIS IS THE POINT emphasis on ROD, SEGMENT, ARRAY, INDICATES EXTENT
　

巾

キン,フク,おお,ちきり,きれ loincloth, cloth wrapping for one's head of some sort, lap cloth, one's pride; frequent repetition

　SPREAD LEGS with ROD
…or: ROD VERTICAL in SPREAD LEGS
　

丶

チュ,× emphasized part of a glyph

　[emphasis is HERE in a glyph]
　

帀

ソウ,めぐ route that ends at the same place it started, a cycle, a circuit, cyclical action; follow around, move something in a circular motion, to screw, screwing; action of excreting as in defecating and/or urinating

　RECIPROCATING LATERAL MOTION OF ROD STALK OR STEM WHILE HORIZONTAL, INDICATES WIDTH OR EXTENT, ONE SEGMENT with LOINCLOTH, CLOTH WRAPPING FOR ONE'S HEAD OF SOME SORT, LAP CLOTH, ONE'S PRIDE, FREQUENT REPETITION
…or: DOWN, ROD DOWN in SPREAD LEGS, SURROUNDING
　

巿

× screw; revolve, make the circuit, turn; knee pads; sacrificial actions

　SCREWING in SPREAD LEGS
…or: ARRAYED, ROD in LOINCLOTH
　

市

シ,いち market, place to trade barter buy and sell; city

　emphasis on EXCRETION
…or: COVER HEAD with LOINCLOTH
…or: PALMING the LOINCLOTH
…or: emphasis on ROD DOWN in SPREAD LEGS
　

Meanings of elements

CITY GIRL
…or: FEMALE being MARKETED
…or: FEMALE and PALM DOWN on ROD VERTICAL in SPREAD LEGS, LOINCLOTH, CLOTH WRAPPING FOR ONE'S HEAD OF SOME SORT, LAP CLOTH, ONE'S PRIDE, FREQUENT REPETITION
…or: FEMALE SCREWING, FEMALE EXCRETED

Modern glyph uses「female marketplace.」Formerly「female added, female meat pile」(姐) was used to refer to one's ELDER SISTER, because she was someone who could be「added」anytime to anyone's household. Later morphed to「female being marketed」(a person who was being offered for sale to be purchased with herself as the fresh meat, and not as someone who had gone shopping for groceries).
　「Viewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary from Song Dynasty (960 - 1279) forward, both in the suddenly expanded labor market and within relationships. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
　　[　https://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/hersheys/hersheys5.html 2011-04-05　]　
　Note that the really young girls (not the elder sisters) were not yet sold as slaves or prostitutes until fully trained in order to fetch the highest possible price. Elements as「female」with「palm down, covering loincloth」either to suppress male arousal when she was offered for sale and demonstrating her talents, or the contrary, indicating that an elder female should not be walking around with a naked groin while in the city, unless advertised as being 'for sale' of course.
　In Japan, this term is the polite way to address a young lady, maid, or waitress, someone working or providing services to you, as would a slave long ago, and you do not know (or shouldn't mention) her age.

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: old variant of 姊
Japanese: older sister, elder sister, honorific suffix used after the name of a woman of equal or higher status, used after the name of someone who is an older sister figure, used with various honorifics to mean sister, young lady, miss, ma'am, girl
Unihan extended: elder sister
EDRDG: elder sister

Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that) and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language. If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system. Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles? Yes! It is! Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up. No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else. This site describes glyph meanings, not people. These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect. The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language? (More...) Despite how bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only have been worse?

By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs, you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any dictionary. This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.