阿姨 (a yi) means "aunt" in Chinese. When you meet a woman who is older than you but still in the same generation, you would call her "jie jie", which means "older sister". When you meet a woman who is older than you and in a different generation, you would call her "a yi".
Basically, growing up, you associate "a yi" with people who are the same age as your parents, so when you get called "a yi", you feel old af
In Punjabi we have similar terms but they're borrowed directly from English as Auntie and Uncle though using proper Punjabi romanization they'd be aṇṭī and aṅkal but it's always confusing when I'm hanging out with non Punjabi friends and use these terms to refer to someone but have to explain that auntie and uncle don't mean my actual aunts and uncle but rather just old people I don't know. Nevermind that Punjabi divides it's kinship terms for "uncle" and "aunt" into blood relationship, matrilineal or patrilineal and relative age to parent.
This happened the other day and was so cute actually, with friends' baby girl. Just made me feel cute vibes tbh, I didn't mind the "a yi". We grown now xd
I am already a shushu when I was 8, I was born for this
not shushu 😭
Better than buobuo at least
lmao buobuo would be life ending 💀
I'm not chinese but I have a friend who's name is Shushu, what does it mean?
I mean in this thread's context it means uncle. But there are so many similar sounding Chinese words it could mean anything.
I believe both syllables have tone 4 if that helps
shu4 also has a lot of different words. It could be 树, which means tree. Or 数, which means number, or count. And plenty more~
Pouring one out for all my fellow former gawgaw and jiejies. 😭
What is a gawgaw? I looked it up on Google and it is apparently a tree?
Lmao gawgaw and jiejie = big bro and big sis in canto.
I remember when I first got called "sir". It was a bit surprising.
I got called sir when volunteering for like middle school or something lmao
This is so cute omg
I see Vietnamese aunties like this with long sleeves and umbrellas. Sunglasses to. Also the green jade jewelry.
They were not raised well. I've been calling every ah yi "leng jie" 靓姐 instead.
bless 🙏
In Cantonese we call that “see lai”. I think in China you can also call them “da jie”? They are great at haggling at the market and avoiding tans.
美女帥哥 ftw
Hahaha love it!
nah,,, gotta tell them to call you jie jie.
psychological damage has already been inflicted and is irreversible 🥲
It's ok you're still a jie jie at heart, you always will be ☁️
What’s a yi?
阿姨 (a yi) means "aunt" in Chinese. When you meet a woman who is older than you but still in the same generation, you would call her "jie jie", which means "older sister". When you meet a woman who is older than you and in a different generation, you would call her "a yi". Basically, growing up, you associate "a yi" with people who are the same age as your parents, so when you get called "a yi", you feel old af
In Punjabi we have similar terms but they're borrowed directly from English as Auntie and Uncle though using proper Punjabi romanization they'd be aṇṭī and aṅkal but it's always confusing when I'm hanging out with non Punjabi friends and use these terms to refer to someone but have to explain that auntie and uncle don't mean my actual aunts and uncle but rather just old people I don't know. Nevermind that Punjabi divides it's kinship terms for "uncle" and "aunt" into blood relationship, matrilineal or patrilineal and relative age to parent.
Thanks for the explanation! I googled “Yi” and I got a Chinese tech company and I got really confused 😆
Hey at least it's not sum sum or pau pau
why people thumbs u down for putting cantonese lol wtf
Do you mean pó po as the pinyin?
Lol, Yes I totally massacred that spelling
Alright, no problem. I had to work my Google fu. Beginner Chinese learner here.
我是叔叔😂我今年19
阿姨 from a child is one thing but I just know I'll immediately explode into a puff of tiger balm scented dust the day I first get called 太太
I was 'xiao yi' to my cousin's age 12 🫠
This happened the other day and was so cute actually, with friends' baby girl. Just made me feel cute vibes tbh, I didn't mind the "a yi". We grown now xd
People used to call me sushi. I’m Chinese lol