お姉さん

Japanese

Kanji in this term
姉
ねえ Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Alternative forms

お姐さん (rare)

Pronunciation

Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) おねえさん [ònéꜜèsàǹ] (Nakadaka – [2])^[1]
- IPA^(key): [o̞ne̞ːsã̠ɴ]

Noun

お姉さん (hiragana おねえさん, rōmaji onē-san)

(honorific) elder sister
Used as term of address to one's own older sister, and to refer to other people's older sisters.
young woman, young lady

Synonyms

姉 (あね) (ane): (humble): Used to refer to one's own older sister when talking to someone else.

References

↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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