大姨
dà yí
Pinyin

Definition

大姨
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dà yí
  1. (coll.) wife's elder sister
  2. sister-in-law

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

大
dà
  1. 1 big
  2. 2 huge
  3. 3 large
  4. 4 major
  5. 5 great
  6. 6 wide
  7. 7 deep
  8. 8 older (than)
  9. 9 oldest
  10. 10 eldest
  11. 11 greatly
  12. 12 very much
  13. 13 (dialect) father
  14. 14 father's elder or younger brother
大吉
dà jí
  1. 1 very auspicious
  2. 2 extremely lucky
大家
dà jiā
  1. 1 everyone
  2. 2 influential family
  3. 3 great expert
大奖
dà jiǎng
  1. 1 prize
  2. 2 award
大话骰
dà huà tóu
  1. 1 liar's dice (dice game)

Idioms (20)

不识大体
bù shí dà tǐ
  1. 1 to fail to see the larger issue (idiom)
  2. 2 to fail to grasp the big picture
久仰大名
jiǔ yǎng dà míng
  1. 1 I have been looking forward to meeting you for a long time (idiom)
以小挤大
yǐ xiǎo jǐ dà
  1. 1 minor projects eclipse major ones (idiom)
元恶大憝
yuán è dà duì
  1. 1 arch-criminal and archenemy (idiom)
冒大不韪
mào dà bù wěi
  1. 1 to face opprobrium (idiom)

Sample Sentences

你开什么玩笑！？我那些七大姑八大姨还不够多啊？三天两头问我薪水涨没涨？房子多少钱？下一胎有动静了没？
nǐ kāi shénme wánxiào ！？wǒ nàxiē qīdàgūbādàyí huán bùgòu duō ā ？sāntiānliǎngtóu wèn wǒ xīnshuǐ zhǎng méi zhǎng ？fángzi duōshǎo qián ？xià yī tāi yǒu dòngjìng le méi ？
Are you joking!? I've already got enough real aunties. Asking me every few days has my salary gone up, how much I paid for my apartment, and whether there is another little one on the way.
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倒不是，导火索是我做得太过火了，每次大姨妈来，我都拉肚子，就爱向他撒娇卖萌求安慰，时间久了他有点不以为然了，昨天他说“不就是拉肚子吗”。
dào bùshì ，dǎohuǒsuǒ shì wǒ zuò de tài guòhuǒ le ，měicì dàyímā lái ，wǒ dōu lā dùzi ，jiù ài xiàng tā sājiāo màiméng qiú ānwèi ，shíjiān jiǔ le tā yǒudiǎnr bùyǐwéirán le ，zuótiān tā shuō “bù jiùshì lā dùzi ma ”。
That's not it at all. The trigger was me going overboard. Every time my Aunt Flow comes to town, I always get diarrhea, so I'll act all cute and distraught with him and ask him to comfort me. After a while he started to have a problem with it, and yesterday he said "Isn't it just diarrhea?".
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你刚没听见吗？居然说我大姨妈来，她什么意思！她一定知道我在生气什么，虚伪！变态！神经病！
nǐ gāng méi tīngjiàn ma ？jūrán shuō wǒ dàyímā lái ，tā shénme yìsi ！tā yídìng zhīdào wǒ zài shēngqì shénme ，xūwěi ！biàntài ！shénjīngbìng ！
Didn't you just hear her? How could she ask if my Aunt Flo is in town, what did she mean by that! She must know I'm angry at her, what a phony! Pervert! Mental case!
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你大姨妈是你的老朋友？
nǐ dàyímā shì nǐde lǎo péngyou ？
Is your great aunt your old friend?
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不是，我大姨妈来了。
bùshì ，wǒ dàyímā lái le 。
No, my great aunt has come.
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是啊，光那些七大姑八大姨就要记好一阵。他们家很早就去美国了吧？
shì a ，guāng nàxiē qīdàgūbādàyí jiùyào jì hǎoyīzhèn 。tāmen jiā hěn zǎo jiù qù Měiguó le ba ？
Yeah, just learning the terms for all the relatives takes quite a while. Did they move to America a long time ago?
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