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
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
姉妹
sisters
姉妹で 同じ 学校に 通います。
My sister and I go to the same school.
いもうと imouto · kun reading
妹
little sister
妹は 一年生です。
My little sister is in first grade.
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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.