姪

めい · mei · JLPT N2 · noun

niece

女 (woman) radical marks a female relative; 至 is the phonetic part, so a niece is a girl in the family

The left radical 女 means woman, which fits a female relative. The right part 至 is the phonetic component. Niece is a sibling's daughter, so the radical signals the gender.

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