拼音
- mèi (fourth tone, falling)
younger sister
字形拆解
Ideographic description
⿰女未The sequence reads left to right and describes how the parts are arranged.
- 女meaning partThe woman radical.
- 未sound partno entry yet未 wèi for the sound. It draws a tree whose topmost branches are still short — hence its own meaning, "not yet".
Mnemonic
A woman 女 with 未 wèi beside her. 未 is there for the sound, but its own picture — a tree whose upper branches have not yet filled out, "not yet" — is a fair enough hook for the younger sister, provided you remember that this is a memory aid and not the etymology. Watch the right-hand element: 未 has a short top bar, 末 mò "the end" has a long one.
A memory aid written by HSK Guide editors. It is not an etymology and does not describe the historical origin of the character.
部首 女 — other characters
- 好hǎo (third tone, dipping) hào (fourth tone, falling)good, fine, well; easy to do; (hào) to be fond of, to like
- 女nǚ (third tone, dipping)woman; female; daughter (in 女儿)
- 妈媽mā (first tone, high and level)mother, mum (chiefly in 妈妈); a form of address for an older married woman
- 姐jiě (third tone, dipping)elder sister; a young woman (in 小姐)