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妃

妃

Translingual

Han character

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

References

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 妃

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (妃) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
圮 *brɯlʔ
妃 *pʰɯːls, *pʰɯl

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 女 ‎(“woman”) + 卩 ‎(“a kneeling man”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 妃 妃
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 滂 (2) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 微 (21) 灰 (42)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III I
Fanqie 芳非切 滂佩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pʰʉi/ /pʰuʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pʰʷɨi/ /pʰuoiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pʰiuəi/ /pʰuɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pʰuj/ /pʰwəjH/
Li
Rong		 /pʰiuəi/ /pʰuᴀiH/
Wang
Li		 /pʰĭwəi/ /pʰuɒiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pʰwe̯i/ /pʰuɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fēi pèi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 妃
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fēi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ phjɨj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰ[ə][j]/
English consort; match

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 妃 妃
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 3061 3062
Phonetic
component		 妃 妃
Rime
group		 微 微
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 配 霏
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰɯːls/ /*pʰɯl/
Notes 見左傳 甲金文從巳從女表育兒之婦，非己聲

Definitions

妃

  1. †spouse; couple
  2. (historical) imperial concubine
  3. (historical) wife of a prince

Compounds

  • 五妃廟／五妃庙
  • 元妃
  • 后妃 (hòufēi)
  • 天妃
  • 太妃糖
  • 妃匹
  • 妃嬪／妃嫔 (fēipín)
  • 妃子 (fēizi)
  • 妃子笑
  • 妃祿仙女／妃禄仙女
  • 妃耦
  • 妃色
  • 婁妃／娄妃
  • 嬪妃／嫔妃
  • 宓妃
  • 宸妃
  • 帝妃 (dìfēi)
  • 明妃
  • 梅妃
  • 楊貴妃／杨贵妃
  • 江妃
  • 洛浦宓妃
  • 湘妃
  • 湘妃竹
  • 潘妃
  • 潘妃步
  • 潘妃金蓮／潘妃金莲
  • 王妃 (wángfēi)
  • 禿妃之髮／秃妃之发
  • 虙妃
  • 貴妃／贵妃 (guìfēi)
  • 貴妃醉酒／贵妃醉酒
  • 賢妃／贤妃
  • 靈妃／灵妃

Japanese

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

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

Noun

妃 ‎(hiragana みめ, romaji mime)

  1. A noble's wife.

Kanji

妃

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

妃 (phi)

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