Translingual

Han character

姫 (radical 38 女+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 女尸中中 (VSLL) or X女尸中中 (XVSLL), four-corner 4141₇, composition ⿰女臣)

References

• KangXi: page 260, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6229
• Dae Jaweon: page 526, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1043, character 4
• Unihan data for U+59EB

Chinese

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 姬)

Readings

• Goon: き (ki) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: き (ki) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kun: ひめ (hime)
• Nanori: ひめ (hime), こひめ (kohime), ひめさき (himesaki), ぷりんせす (purinsesu), れもん (remon)

Compounds

Etymology

From Old Japanese. Originally /pi₁me₁/. *[pime]] → [ɸime] → [hime]. Compound of 日 ‎(hi, “sun”) +‎ 女 ‎(me, “woman”).^[1][2] The male equivalent is 彦 ‎(hiko).

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) ひ​め [híꜜmè] (Atamadaka - [1])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [çime̞]

Noun

姫 ‎(hiragana ひめ, romaji hime)

1. (euphemistic) a woman
2. a noblewoman, a lady, a princess
3. (slang) in the Kyōto and Ōsaka areas, a prostitute
4. short for 姫糊 ‎(himenori), a kind of starch glue made from boiled-down rice

Prefix

姫 ‎(hiragana ひめ, romaji hime-)

1. prefix expressing cuteness or smallness

Derived terms

Synonyms

• (princess): プリンセス ‎(purinsesu): princess
• (princess): 皇女 (こうじょ) ‎(kōjo): an imperial princess
• (princess): 王女 (おうじょ) ‎(ōjo): a king's daughter: a princess

See also

• 女皇 (じょこう) ‎(jokō): an empress
• 女王 (じょおう) ‎(joō): a queen
• Princess on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Noblewoman on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

姫 • ‎(hui) (hangeul 희, revised hui, McCune-Reischauer hŭi, Yale huy)

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