妾

Translingual

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – a woman with a headdress. Cognate to 女 with 辛 on top. However, modern form is graphically 立 + 女 – the headdress has simplified to 立, rather than 辛.

Han character

妾 (radical 38 女+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿女 (YTV), four-corner 0040₄, composition ⿱立女)

1. concubine

Derived characters

• 接

References

• KangXi: page 257, character 39
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6147
• Dae Jaweon: page 523, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1040, character 8
• Unihan data for U+59BE

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Cantonese

Hanzi

妾 (Yale chip3)

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Japanese

Kanji

妾

Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: めかけ (mekake), わらわ (warawa)

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Korean

Hanja

妾 (hangeul 첩, revised cheop, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏp)

1. 작은마누라 (jagEun-manura) concubine

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Mandarin

Hanzi

妾 (pinyin qiè (qie4), Wade-Giles ch'ieh⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

妾 (thiếp, thê)