solarz
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Never heard of 姑姐 before, both my parents and my wife's parents are all eldest in the family, lol!
In Shanghainese, instead of 姑姑, we say “niang1 niang1", not sure what the characters are. Yet, for her husband, we say 姑父. Go figure!
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Never heard of 姑姐 before, both my parents and my wife's parents are all eldest in the family, lol!
In Shanghainese, instead of 姑姑, we say “niang1 niang1", not sure what the characters are. Yet, for her husband, we say 姑父. Go figure!
This must be an unique Cantonese usage. 姑姐 could be mistaken by Mandarin speakers as something entirely different if just looking at the word 姐. Someone of the same generation rather than an ante. On the other hand in Mandarin 子 in here is not son but just a suffix.
母 or 娘, different words same meaning.
I am not wrong on this one though. 婶 is the simplified version of 嬸
That is 娘娘 meaning 姑姑 in Mandarin. It is a typical Shanghainese thing like 姑姐 being Cantonese thing. I learned the word 娘娘 in elementary school when there was an short story in the curriculum written by an author from Shanghai who kept local vocabulary in his works to emphasize the settings of the stories.
"In Shanghainese, instead of 姑姑, we say “niang1 niang1", not sure what the characters are. Yet, for her husband, we say 姑父. Go figure!"
It's good to know shanghainess got their colloquial parlance as well.
Lol. We Cantonese confuses the hell out of our fellow Chinese. Also if you look at 姑姐. It is not only calling your aunty as if it is from the same generation. I think the "姑" bit should suffice to distinguish her as one generation up. But the "姐" part is confusing, because as we all know "姐" means older sister, but when use in this context? It refer to your dad's younger sister. Lol
"母 or 娘, different words same meaning". Yes that's truth, but as I said "娘" is preferred because :伯母" sounds very negative in Cantonese parlance.
And finally, my simplified chinese is not as good. I should've known. 婶 is the simplified version of 嬸. Apologies.
SteelBird
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Talking about the complicated relatives in Chinese families, there was a story about a nun who was cleaning in front of her pagoda when a drunk man fell down in the middle of the street and the nun helped him to side of the street. A nun is not a allowed to touch men's body so people started to gossip about her. So the village head summit her to the court and asked why she did that and what was the relationship between the drunk man and her? She wrote two sentences on the board and went away:
醉汉妻弟妮姑舅，妮姑舅姐醉汉妻。Because relationship in English is much more simple, so I can only translate it into these:
The younger brother of the drunk man's wife is nun's uncle while the elder sister of nun's uncle is the wife of the drunk man.
Can you guess their relationship?
醉汉妻弟妮姑舅，妮姑舅姐醉汉妻。Because relationship in English is much more simple, so I can only translate it into these:
The younger brother of the drunk man's wife is nun's uncle while the elder sister of nun's uncle is the wife of the drunk man.
Can you guess their relationship?
solarz
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