mother's eldest sister (older than one's mother); (coll.) (euphemism) Aunt Flo (i.e. menstrual period)
trad. 大姨媽
Also written 大姨媽【dà yí mā】
Characters in this word
3大
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big; large; great, older (than another person), eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]), greatly; freely; fully, (dialect) father, (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- Pinyin
- dà
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 199 of 2500
姨
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mother's sister, aunt
- Pinyin
- yí
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 45972 of 2500
妈
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ma, mom, mother
- Pinyin
- mā
- Traditional
- 媽
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 267 of 2500