older sister

= + : Bessie Coleman (女) and Joan of Arc (ji) have been searching through an ancestry archive for days and days. Inside of the elevator (e3) they stand in front of a shelf (且) which contains thousands of ancestry records, and after they worked very hard, they found out that through some complicated lineage they are older sisters (姐) to each other.

姐 character breakdown

and / moreover / yet / for the time being / to be about to / both (... and...)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: to me the character 且 looks like a shelf.

The Queen of Hearts (qi) bought a new shelf (且) for all her flutes (一) and set it up in the elevator's living room (e3). Because she is a queen (qi) and needs an extravagant shelf, she installed several Eye of Providences (目) to give the flutes extravagant lighting.
female / woman / daughter

I'll represent 女 by Bessie Coleman, the first female pilot of African American descent.
archaic variant of 汝[ru3]

Characters with 姐 as component

姐 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 姐

abbr. for 空中小姐 / stewardess / air hostess / female flight attendant
common word for ladybug, more formally 瓢蟲|瓢虫[piao2 chong2]
senior female fellow student or apprentice / daughter (older than oneself) of one's teacher
girl who engages in enjo-kōsai / see also 援助交際|援助交际[yuan2 zhu4 jiao1 ji4]
female taxi driver
(dialect) prostitute
erhua variant of 窯姐|窑姐[yao2 jie3]
(polite) my older sister
little girl who is older than another young child (e.g. her playmate) / (neologism c. 2017) (slang) young lady (amiable form of address for a young woman of about one's own age or a little older)

Sentences with 姐

jiě
mèi
men
kuài
lái
 
 
zhè
lǐ
yǒu
dà
táo