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妾

妾

Translingual

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

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 妾

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 妾
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (妾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
霎 *sreːb, *sreb
翣 *sraːb
帹 *sraːb
接 *ʔseb
椄 *ʔseb
菨 *ʔseb
鯜 *ʔseb, *sʰeb
妾 *sʰeb
淁 *sʰeb
踥 *sʰeb

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.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 妾
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 葉 (155)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 七接切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sʰiᴇp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sʰiɛp̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sʰjæp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sʰiap̚/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sʰiɛp̚/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sʰĭɛp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sʰi̯ɛp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qie
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 妾
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qiè
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tshjep ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[tsʰ]ap/
English concubine

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 妾
Reading # 1/1
No. 10467
Phonetic
component		 妾
Rime
group		 盍
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 妾
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰeb/

Definitions

妾

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Compounds

  • 三妻四妾
  • 三房四妾
  • 下妾
  • 侍妾 (shìqiè)
  • 先妾
  • 園妾／园妾
  • 團扇妾／团扇妾
  • 妻妾
  • 妾婦／妾妇
  • 妾媵
  • 妾身 (qièshēn)
  • 妾身未明
  • 姬妾
  • 婢妾 (bìqiè)
  • 媵妾
  • 嬌妻美妾／娇妻美妾
  • 嬖妾
  • 宮妾／宫妾
  • 寵妾／宠妾
  • 小妾
  • 愛妾／爱妾
  • 愛妾換馬／爱妾换马
  • 男妾 (nánqiè)
  • 納妾／纳妾 (nàqiè)
  • 臣妾
  • 蛟妾
  • 賤妾／贱妾 (jiànqiè)

Japanese

Kanji

妾

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. concubine

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. 작은마누라 (jagEun-manura) concubine

Vietnamese

Han character

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