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There are 14 total results for your queen empress search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

皇后

see styles
huáng hòu
    huang2 hou4
huang hou
 kougou / kogo
    こうごう

More info & calligraphy:

Empress
empress; imperial consort
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (Japanese) empress; queen; (surname) Kōgou
empress

see styles
hòu
    hou4
hou
 kisaki
    きさき
empress; queen; (archaic) monarch; ruler
(out-dated kanji) (suffix) after; (out-dated or obsolete kana usage) empress; queen; (female given name) Kisaki

后宮

see styles
 kouguu / kogu
    こうぐう
(1) empress's palace; queen's palace; (2) empress; queen

天后

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tiān hòu
    tian1 hou4
t`ien hou
    tien hou
 tenkou / tenko
    てんこう
Tin Hau, Empress of Heaven, another name for the goddess Matsu 媽祖|妈祖[Ma1 zu3]; Tin Hau (Hong Kong area around the MTR station with same name)
queen of heaven
Queen of Heaven, v. 摩利支.

太后

see styles
tài hòu
    tai4 hou4
t`ai hou
    tai hou
 taikou / taiko
    たいこう
Empress Dowager
empress dowager; queen mother

女皇

see styles
nǚ huáng
    nu:3 huang2
nü huang
 jokou / joko
    じょこう
empress
(See 女帝) empress; queen

娘娘

see styles
niáng niang
    niang2 niang5
niang niang
 nyannyan
    ニャンニャン
queen; empress; imperial concubine; Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West; mother; aunt
Niangniang (chi:); Chinese goddess

王妃

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wáng fēi
    wang2 fei1
wang fei
 ouhi / ohi
    おうひ
princess (in Europe)
queen; empress; (female given name) Waki
(Skt. rājñī)

皇妃

see styles
 kouhi / kohi
    こうひ
empress; queen

皇妣

see styles
 kouhi / kohi
    こうひ
(archaism) deceased Queen Mother; deceased Empress Dowager

Variations:

see styles
 kisaki; kisai(后)(ok)
    きさき; きさい(后)(ok)
empress; queen

皇太后

see styles
huáng tài hòu
    huang2 tai4 hou4
huang t`ai hou
    huang tai hou
 koutaigou(p); koutaikou(ok) / kotaigo(p); kotaiko(ok)
    こうたいごう(P); こうたいこう(ok)
empress dowager
Empress Dowager; Queen Mother; (surname) Kōtaigou

老佛爺


老佛爷

see styles
lǎo fó yé
    lao3 fo2 ye2
lao fo yeh
title of respect for the queen mother or the emperor's father; nickname for Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4]

Variations:
皇妃
后妃

see styles
 kouhi / kohi
    こうひ
empress; queen

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 14 results for "queen empress" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
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Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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