嫂
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(bound form) older brother's wife; sister-in-law
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 女 +10
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 嫂
- Common rank
- #2,786
- Unicode
- U+5AC2
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
elder brother’s wife · Heisig RSH #2965
女 woman + cake mixer
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 嫂
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 老嫂子 | (slang) effeminate man | |
| 育儿嫂 | nanny (for infants and toddlers) | |
| 嫂子 | (coll.) older brother's wife; sister-in-law | |
| 大嫂 | older brother's wife; sister-in-law; elder sister (respectful appellation for an older mar… | |
| 家嫂 | (polite) my sister-in-law | |
| 空嫂 | married stewardess of mature age | |
| 军嫂 | wife of a serviceman; soldier's wife | |
| 月嫂 | woman hired to take care of a newborn child and its mother in the month after childbirth | |
| 表嫂 | wife of older male cousin via female line | |
| 堂嫂 | wife of older male cousin via male line | |
| 贝嫂 | nickname for Victoria Beckham | |
| 兄嫂 | elder brother and his wife | |
| 舅嫂 | wife's brother's wife, sister-in-law | |
| 嫂嫂 | older brother's wife; sister-in-law; (polite address to a younger married woman) sister |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 叟 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 叟 sound part | old man; elder | |
| 搜 | to seek, to search, to investigate | |
| 瘦 | thin, lean, emaciated; meager | |
| 飕 | a chill breeze; to blow; the sound of the wind | |
| 嗖 | a whizzing sound | |
| 溲 | to urinate; to soak, to drench | |
| 螋 | earwig, millipede, spider | |
| 鄋 | a county in Shandong province | |
| 艘 | measure word for ships or vessels | |
| 锼 | to carve |