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| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| Jing-mei Woo | Jing-mei "June" Woo, the newest member of the Joy Luck Club, is the daughter of the late Suyuan Woo. Read More |
| Lindo Jong | Lindo Jong, who escaped an arranged marriage as a teenager, is the mother of Waverly Jong, her daughter from a later marriage. Read More |
| Ying-ying St. Clair | Ying-ying "Betty" St. Clair is the mother of Lena St. Clair. She loses her "tiger spirit," or her assertiveness and sense of self-worth, when her first husband leaves her for another woman. Read More |
| An-mei Hsu | An-mei Hsu is the mother of Rose Hsu Jordan. An-mei's mother was forced into concubinage when An-mei was a young child. Read More |
| Waverly Jong | Waverly Jong, a former child chess prodigy, is Lindo Jong's daughter and Jing-mei Woo's frenemy (friend/enemy). Read More |
| Rose Hsu Jordan | Rose Hsu Jordan is the daughter of An-mei Hsu. She is in the midst of divorcing her husband, Ted Jordan. Read More |
| Lena St. Clair | Lena St. Clair is the only daughter of Ying-ying and Clifford St. Clair. She is frustrated with her marriage to Harold Livotny. Read More |
| Suyuan Woo | Suyuan Woo is Jing-mei Woo's mother. Recently deceased, she was forced to abandon her two little girls when the Japanese invaded Kweilin, China, in 1944. Read More |
| Aiyi | Aiyi, which is literally "aunt" in Chinese, is the name Canning Woo uses to refer to his aunt he and Jing-mei visit in China. |
| Amah | Amah is Ying-ying St. Clair's childhood nanny. |
| An-mei's aunt | An-mei's aunt has a sour disposition and dislikes young An-mei and her brother. |
| An-mei's brother | An-mei's younger brother stays behind at their aunt and uncle's house when An-mei goes to Tientsin with her mother. |
| An-mei's father | An-mei's father, a scholar, died when An-mei was three. |
| An-mei's mother | An-mei's mother becomes the third concubine, or Fourth Wife, of Wu Tsing, a wealthy businessman, after her husband's death. |
| An-mei's uncle | An-mei's uncle rejects An-mei's mother as his sister after she becomes a concubine. |
| Baba | Baba is Ying-ying St. Clair's father. |
| China Mary Chan | The late China Mary Chan was godmother to all the children at the First Chinese Baptist Church. An-mei Hsu and Rose Hsu Jordan attend her funeral. |
| Yan Chang | Yan Chang is An-mei's mother's kindly servant. |
| Marvin Chen | Marvin Chen is Waverly Jong's first husband. |
| Shoshana Chen | Shoshana Chen is Waverly Jong's daughter by her first husband, Marvin Chen. |
| Mr. Chong | Mr. Chong, whom Jing-mei Woo calls "Old Chong," is a retired, deaf piano teacher. |
| Old Lady Chong | Old Lady Chong is Mr. Chong's mother. |
| Old Mr. Chou | Old Mr. Chou is a fictional character feared by Rose Hsu Jordan. An-mei Hsu told Rose and her sisters that Old Mr. Chou guards the door that opens into dreams. |
| Marlene Ferber | Marlene Ferber is Waverly Jong's American friend who doesn't understand why Waverly is afraid to tell her mother she's getting married. |
| Fifth Wife | Fifth Wife is Wu Tsing's fourth concubine. From a poor village, she is young, conceited, and disrespectful. |
| First Wife | First Wife is Wu Tsing's legal and spiritual wife. She only visits Wu Tsing twice a year. |
| Girl from Peking | The girl from Peking, who is Chinese but was raised in America, helps prepare young Lindo Jong for her upcoming trip to the United States. |
| George Hsu | George Hsu is An-mei Hsu's husband and Rose Hsu Jordan's father. |
| Bing Hsu | Bing Hsu is An-mei Hsu's son and Rose Hsu Jordan's youngest brother, who died by drowning at age four. |
| Janice Hsu | Janice Hsu the daughter of An-mei Hsu and one of Rose Hsu Jordan's older sisters. |
| Luke Hsu | Luke Hsu is the son of An-mei Hsu and one of Rose Hsu Jordan's younger brothers. |
| Mark Hsu | Mark Hsu is the son of An-mei Hsu and one of Rose Hsu Jordan's younger brothers. |
| Matthew Hsu | Matthew Hsu is the son of An-mei Hsu and one of Rose Hsu Jordan's younger brothers. |
| Ruth Hsu | Ruth Hsu is An-mei Hsu's daughter and one of Rose Hsu Jordan's older sisters. |
| Huang Taitai | Huang Taitai is the mother of young Lindo Jong's fiancé. Tyan-yu. |
| Huang Tyan-yu | Tyan-yu is the spoiled boy to whom Lindo Jong is betrothed when she is just two. |
| Tin Jong | Tin Jong is Lindo Jong's husband and Waverly Jong's father. |
| Vincent Jong | Vincent is Lindo Jong's middle child and Waverly's older brother. |
| Winston Jong | Winston is Lindo Jong's firstborn and Waverly's oldest brother. He dies at 16 in a car accident. |
| Mrs. Jordan | Mrs. Jordan is Ted Jordan's bigoted mother. |
| Ted Jordan | Ted Jordan is Rose Hsu Jordan's ex-husband. |
| Lili | Lili is Aiyi's great-granddaughter whom Canning and Jing-mei Woo meet during their trip to China. |
| Lindo's mother | Lindo Jong's mother gives her a red jade tablet before Lindo leaves her family to live with the Huangs, whose son she is betrothed to marry. |
| Harold Livotny | Harold Livotny is Lena St. Clair's husband. They eventually decide to divorce. |
| Lisa Lum | Lisa Lum is Vincent Jong's girlfriend. |
| Matchmaker | The matchmaker decrees Lindo Jong will marry Tyan-yu. |
| Matchmaker's servant | The matchmaker's servant was tasked with watching the double-ended red candle burn through the night after Lindo Jong's and Tyan-yu's wedding ceremony. |
| Mei Ching | Mei Ching is the peasant woman who rescues Suyuan Woo's twin daughters, Chwun Yu and Chwun Hwa, outside of Kweilin, China. |
| Mei Han | Mei Han is the husband of Mei Ching. He dies when the twins are eight. |
| Number Two | Number Two is Ying-ying St. Clair's younger half-sister. They share the same father. |
| Number Three | Number Three is Ying-ying St. Clair's other younger half-sister. They share the same father. |
| Lau Po | Lau Po is the elderly Chinese man who helps young Waverly Jong refine her chess game. |
| Popo | Popo is An-mei's grandmother. |
| Pregnant servant | The Huang's pregnant servant cares for Lindo Jong while she is on bedrest and ends up marrying Tyan-yu. |
| Arnold Reisman | Arnold Reisman is the pockmarked boy young Lena St. Clair doesn't want to marry. She hopes he will become ill; within a few years he dies of measles. |
| Mr. Rory | Waverly Jong's expensive hair stylist. |
| Mrs. Sorci | Mrs. Sorci is Teresa Sorci's mother. |
| Teresa Sorci | Teresa is young Lena St. Clair's teenage next-door neighbor who is always fighting with her mother. |
| Second Wife | Second Wife is the conniving first concubine of Wu Tsing who often fakes suicide attempts to get attention. |
| Rich Schields | Rich Schields is Waverly Jong's fiancé. |
| Rose's therapist | Rose Hsu Jordan's therapist thinks Rose's ethnicity has nothing to do with her problems. |
| Clifford St. Clair | Clifford St. Clair is Ying-ying's white American husband and Lena's father. Ying-ying calls him "Saint." |
| Syaudi | Syaudi is An-mei's little half-brother who was fathered by Wu Tsing. |
| Third Wife | Third Wife is Wu Tsing's second concubine. She is kind and looks plain. |
| Wang Chwun Hwa | Wang Chwun Ha is one of the twin daughters Suyuan Woo had to leave behind in Kweilin, China. She is reunited with her half-sister, Jing-mei Woo, more than 40 years later. |
| Wang Chwun Yu | Wang Chwun Yu is one of the twin daughters Suyuan Woo had to leave behind in Kweilin, China. She is reunited with her half-sister, Jing-mei Woo, more than 40 years later. |
| Canning Woo | Canning Woo is Suyuan Woo's second husband and Jing-mei Woo's father. |
| Wu Tsing | Wu Tsing is a wealthy businessman who takes An-mei's mother as his third concubine, also known as his fourth wife. |
| Ying-ying's aunt | Ying-ying's aunt tells Ying-ying her husband is cheating on her. |
| Ying-ying's first husband | Ying-ying's first husband, who she refuses to refer to by his name, abandoned her for another woman after just two years of marriage. |
| Ying-ying's mother | Ying-ying's mother makes Ying-ying's special outfit for the Moon Festival. |
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