大姨媽

See also: 大姨妈

Chinese

		big, eldest	auntie
trad. (大姨媽)		大	姨媽
simp. (大姨妈)		大	姨妈

The euphemistic sense was originally a Cantonese colloquialism.

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: dàyímā
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄧˊ ㄇㄚ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahyimha
  - IPA ^(key): /ta̠⁵¹ i³⁵ ma̠⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: daai⁶ ji⁴ maa¹
  - Yale: daaih yìh mā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ ji⁴ maa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ yi⁴ ma¹
  - IPA ^(key): /tɑːi̯²² jiː²¹ mɑː⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: du hhi 'ma (T3)
  - IPA ^(key): /d̻v̩ʷ²² ɦi⁵⁵ ʔma̱²¹/

大姨媽

(chiefly southern dialects) eldest maternal aunt (mother's eldest sister older than one's mother)
(euphemistic slang, humorous) Aunt Flo, a personification of the menstrual period or menstruation

來大姨媽 / 来大姨妈 ― lái dàyímā ― to be on one's period

If one's mother is the eldest of the sisters, her oldest sister is not reckoned as a 大姨媽 but as 二姨.

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