妃

Translingual

Han character

妃 (radical 38 女+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 女尸山 (VSU), four-corner 4741₇, composition ⿰女己)

1. wife, spouse
2. imperial concubine

References

• KangXi: page 255, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6061
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1027, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5983

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Cantonese

Hanzi

妃 (Jyutping fei1, Yale fei1)

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• Kanji: 后
• Hiragana: きさき
• Romaji: kisaki; qisàqi (obsolete)

Noun

妃 (hiragana きさき, romaji kisaki)

1. A ruler's wife; queen; empress.
   • 1632: Diego Collado, Dictionarium sive thesauri linguae Iaponicae compendium, p. 112

     Regina , æ . reina . qisàqi .

Noun

妃 (hiragana きさい, romaji kisai)

1. (Same as きさき)

Etymology 2

御- mi- (honorific prefix) + 女 me "woman"

Alternative forms

• Kanji: 御妻
• Hiragana: みめ
• Romaji: mime

Noun

妃 (hiragana みめ, romaji mime)

1. A noble's wife.

Kanji

妃

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: ひ (hi), はい (hai)
• Kun: きさき (kisaki)

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Korean

Hanja

妃 (bi, ba) (hangeul 비, 바, revised bi, b, McCune-Reischauer pi, p)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

妃 (Pinyin fēi (fei1), Wade-Giles fei¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

妃 (phi)

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