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The kanji 妹: meaning, readings and stroke order

妹

Meaning
little sister
On reading
マイ mai
Kun reading
いもうと imouto
Strokes
8
Radical
女 woman, female
Level
Level 2 · grade 2

Stroke order

Stroke order of 妹, 8 strokes: each box adds one stroke, the red one is the stroke being written

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese
em gái (muội)
Japanese
いもうと。
Korean
여동생 (매)
Chinese
妹妹

Readings, words and example sentences

マイ mai · on reading

いもうと imouto · kun reading

Practise writing 妹 in the app

In Dino Kids your child writes 妹 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 2 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.

Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.