Definitions

surname Si
wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old); elder sister (old)

Etymology

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

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Bronze Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
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Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
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Clerical Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
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