小妹

Chinese

		small; tiny; few small; tiny; few; young	younger sister
simp. and trad. (小妹)		小	妹

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiǎomèi

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄇㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): siu² mui^6-2, siu² mui⁶
Min Nan (POJ): sió-bē / sió-bēr / sió-māi / sió-moāi / sió-mōe / sió-běr

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: xiǎomèi
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄇㄟˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheaumey
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ meɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: siu² mui^6-2, siu² mui⁶
  - Yale: síu múi, síu muih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: siu² mui^6-2, siu² mui⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: xiu² mui², xiu² mui⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /siːu̯³⁵ muːi̯²²⁻³⁵/, /siːu̯³⁵ muːi̯²²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei, Hsinchu, Magong, Philippines)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sió-bē
  - Tâi-lô: sió-bē
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sioy'be
  - IPA (Taipei): /ɕio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ be³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ɕio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ be²²/
  - IPA (Philippines): /ɕio⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ be⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Sanxia, Hsinchu, Kinmen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sió-bēr
  - Tâi-lô: sió-bēr
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕio⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bə⁴¹/
  - IPA (Kinmen): /ɕio⁵³⁻²⁴ bə²²/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sió-māi
  - Tâi-lô: sió-māi
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sioymai
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ mãɪ²²/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Tainan, Medan, Penang)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sió-moāi
  - Tâi-lô: sió-muāi
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sioymoai
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ muãi²²/
  - IPA (Penang): /ɕio⁴⁴⁵⁻³³ muai²¹/
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Hsinchu, Taichung, Yilan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sió-mōe
  - Tâi-lô: sió-muē
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sioymoe
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ muẽ³³/
- (Hokkien: Lukang)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sió-běr
  - Tâi-lô: sió-běr

Noun

小妹

youngest sister
(Yangjiang Cantonese, Min, dialectal Wu) younger sister
girl younger than someone
(Taiwan) female server

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 妹妹 (“younger sister”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		妹、女弟
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		妹妹
Mandarin	Beijing	妹妹
	Taiwan	妹妹
	Jinan	妹妹
	Xi'an	妹妹、妹子
	Wuhan	妹妹
	Chengdu	妹兒、妹妹
	Yangzhou	妹妹
	Hefei	妹妹
Cantonese	Guangzhou	妹妹、細妹、阿妹、妹
	Hong Kong	妹妹、細妹、阿妹、妹
	Taishan	妹
	Yangjiang	小妹
Gan	Nanchang	妹子
Hakka	Meixian	老妹、老妹仔
	Xingning	老妹
	Huidong	老妹
	Qujiang	老妹
	Xiaosanjiang	老妹
	Changting	老妹
	Pingyu	老妹
	Wuping	老妹
	Liancheng	老妹
	Ninghua	老妹
	Ruijin	老妹
	Shicheng	老妹、妹
	Shangyou	老妹
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	老妹
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	老妹
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	老妹
	Dongshi (Dabu)	老妹
	Zhuolan (Raoping)	老妹
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	阿妹
Jin	Taiyuan	妹妹
Min Bei	Jian'ou	妹仔
Min Dong	Fuzhou	依妹
Min Nan	Xiamen	小妹、阿妹 face-to-face
	Quanzhou	小妹、阿妹 face-to-face
	Zhangzhou	小妹、阿妹 face-to-face
	Taipei	小妹
	Kaohsiung	小妹
	Penang	小妹
	Singapore	小妹
	Philippines (Manila)	小妹
	Chaozhou	阿妹
Wu	Shanghai	阿妹、妹妹
	Suzhou	妹子、妹妹
	Wenzhou	阿妹
Xiang	Changsha	老妹、妹妹
Xiang	Shuangfeng	妹妹

Hypernyms

姊妹 (chí-mōe)

Coordinate terms

大姊 (tōa-chí)

Pronoun

小妹

(female, humble, to the same generation) I; me

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