妾 (Kangxi radical 38, 女 +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿女 (YTV ), four-corner 00404 , composition ⿱立 女 )
Kangxi Dictionary: page 257 , character 39
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6147
Dae Jaweon: page 523, character 6
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1040, character 8
Unihan data for U+59BE
Old Chinese
霎
*sreːb, *sreb
翣
*sraːb
帹
*sraːb
接
*ʔseb
椄
*ʔseb
菨
*ʔseb
鯜
*ʔseb, *sʰeb
妾
*sʰeb
淁
*sʰeb
踥
*sʰeb
Uncertain.
Possibly a pictogram (象形 ) of a woman with a headdress. Cognate to 女 with 辛 on top, though in the modern form the headdress has simplified to unrelated 立 .
Alternatively, may be an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意 ) : 辛 ( “ torture device ” ) + 女 ( “ woman ” ) – female criminal.
Cognate to 捷 (OC *zeb , “victory; booty”) (Schuessler, 2007 ). See there for more.
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/
妾
slave woman
馬 牛 其 風 ,臣 妾 逋逃 ,勿 敢 越 逐 ,祗 復 之 ,我 商 賚 汝 。 [Classical Chinese , trad. ] 马 牛 其 风 ,臣 妾 逋逃 ,勿 敢 越 逐 ,祗 复 之 ,我 商 赉 汝 。 [Classical Chinese , simp. ] From: The Book of Documents , circa 7th – 4th centuries BCE Mǎ niú qí fēng, chén qiè būtáo, wù gǎn yuè zhú, zhī fù zhī, wǒ shāng lài rǔ. [Pinyin] When horses or oxen run about in heat, or when slaves and slave women abscond, do not dare go away [from the camp] and pursue them; but if you [catch them and] respectfully return them, I will reward you.
concubine
( archaic , humble ) I ; me ( used by women to show modesty )
a surname
( slave woman ) : 女奴 (nǚnú )
( concubine ) :
Dialectal synonyms of
妾 (“concubine”)
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Variety
Location
Words
Classical Chinese
妾 , 姬 , 媵 , 妾媵 , 媵妾 , 侍妾 , 姬妾 , 側室 , 偏室 , 姑娘
Formal (Written Standard Chinese )
妾 , 偏房
Northeastern Mandarin
Beijing
小太太兒 , 小婆婆兒 , 小奶奶兒 , 小的兒
Taiwan
小老婆 , 姨太太
Harbin
小老婆
Singapore
小老婆
Jilu Mandarin
Jinan
小老婆
Jiaoliao Mandarin
Yantai (Muping)
小老婆兒 , 小婆子
Central Plains Mandarin
Luoyang
小老婆兒
Wanrong
小婆子
Xi'an
小婆子 , 小
Xuzhou
小的兒 , 小的 , 小兒 , 小點子 , 小婆兒 , 小婆子 , 庶夫人
Lanyin Mandarin
Yinchuan
小老婆 , 小
Lanzhou
小老婆
Ürümqi
小老婆
Southwestern Mandarin
Chengdu
小老婆 , 小婆子
Wuhan
小堂客 , 小 , 姨太太
Guiyang
小婆娘 , 姨太太
Liuzhou
小的 , 小 , 小老婆 , 小婆
Jianghuai Mandarin
Nanjing
小老婆
Cantonese
Guangzhou
細婆 , 妾侍
Hong Kong
細婆 , 妾侍
Dongguan
細婆
Gan
Nanchang
小老婆 , 小
Lichuan
小婆
Pingxiang
小老婆 , 小婆子
Hakka
Meixian
小婆
Yudu
小老婆
Miaoli (N. Sixian)
細姐 , 細婆 , 偏房
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)
細姆 , 細姐仔 , 細婆 , 偏房
Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian)
細姆
Kaohsiung (Meinong; S. Sixian)
細姐仔
Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian)
細姐仔
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)
細姐 , 細婆 , 偏房
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)
細姐 , 細姨 , 偏房
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)
細姐 , 細婆 , 偏房
Miaoli (Zhuolan; Raoping)
細姐 , 細婆 , 偏房
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)
細姐 , 細姨 , 偏房
Huizhou
Jixi
細老嫗
Jin
Taiyuan
小老婆 , 姨娘 , 姨太太
Xinzhou
小婆子
Northern Min
Jian'ou
小嬤
Eastern Min
Fuzhou
細婆 non-face-to-face , 細姐 face-to-face , 姨太 older , 姑娘 younger, face to face
Southern Min
Xiamen
細姨
Quanzhou
細姨
Jinjiang
細姨
Zhangzhou
細姨
Taipei
細姨
New Taipei (Sanxia)
細姨
Kaohsiung
細姨
Yilan
細姨
Changhua (Lukang)
細姨
Taichung
細姨
Tainan
細姨
Hsinchu
細姨
Kinmen
細姨
Penghu (Magong)
細姨
Manila (Hokkien)
細姨
Leizhou
細娘
Haikou
細姩 , 細老婆 , 孧老婆 , 細
Southern Pinghua
Nanning (Tingzi)
細婆
Wu
Shanghai
小老媽 , 小老婆 , 小娘子 , 偏房
Shanghai (Chongming)
小老婆 , 小老官 , 姨太太
Suzhou
小老媽
Danyang
小老媽
Hangzhou
小老婆
Ningbo
小老𡢿
Wenzhou
姨娘 , 姨娘兒
Jinhua
小老婆 , 小婆
Xiang
Changsha
小婆子 , 小堂客
Loudi
小
妾
(Hyōgai kanji )
concubine
servant
For pronunciation and definitions of 妾 – see the following entry.
(This term, 妾 , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
For pronunciation and definitions of 妾 – see the following entry.
(This term, 妾 , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
For pronunciation and definitions of 妾 – see the following entry: てかけ
(The following entry is uncreated: てかけ .)
For pronunciation and definitions of 妾 – see the following entry: おんなめ
(The following entry is uncreated: おんなめ .)
妾( しょう ) • (shō )
concubine
妾( しょう ) • (shō )
( humble, feminine ) I , me
From Middle Chinese 妾 (MC tshjep ). Recorded as Middle Korean 쳡〮 ( chyép ) (Yale : chyep ) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회 ), 1527.
Wikisource
妾 (eumhun 첩 첩 ( cheop cheop ) )
hanja form? of 첩 ( “ concubine ” )
국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典 . [1]
妾 : Hán Nôm readings: thiếp , thê
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