阿姨 āyí in a sentence
auntie; step-mother; mother's younger sister
阿姨 (āyí) means auntie, step-mother, mother's younger sister. Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
阿姨 在厨房做饭。
Āyí zài chúfáng zuò fàn.
Auntie is cooking in the kitchen.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 阿姨
From the graded readers
我问她：“ 阿姨 ，您住几楼？我帮您拿吧。”
wǒ wèn tā:" ā / ē yí, nín zhù jǐ / jī lóu? wǒ bāng nín ná bā."
I asked her, "Which floor are you on? Let me carry those."
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Helping a Stranger
走到三楼的时候，我看见一位 阿姨 站在那里休息。
zǒudào sān lóu de / dì shíhou, wǒ kànjiàn yī wèi ā / ē yí zhàn zài nàli xiūxi.
On the third floor I saw a woman standing there resting.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Helping a Stranger
Questions about 阿姨
How is 阿姨 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 阿姨 (āyí, "auntie, step-mother, mother's younger sister"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 阿姨 an HSK word?
Yes — 阿姨 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 阿姨?
The dictionary page for 阿姨 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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