姑奶奶

gūnǎinai
noun #42,512

Meanings

  1. 1 paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister)
  2. 2 (form of address by the parents' family) married daughter
  3. 3 (coll., self-reference by an angry woman) this lady; me

Examples

Wǒ péi nǎinai qù kàn tā de jiějie, jiùshì wǒ de gūnǎinai.
I went with Grandma to visit her older sister - my paternal great-aunt.
Gūnǎinai jīntiān huí niángjia le.
The married daughter came back to her parents' home today.
Nǐ gǎn rě gūnǎinai wǒ?
You dare to mess with me, lady?

Tips

culture
Three quite different uses: (1) literal kinship - your grandfather's sister; (2) used by your maternal family to address a daughter who has married out; (3) a brassy first-person used by women in arguments, basically 'this lady right here.' Context tells you which is meant.
register
The third sense is colloquial and confrontational - common in TV dramas. The first two are everyday family vocabulary in northern China.

Stroke Order

nǎi