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Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

see styles
qiè
    qie4
ch`ieh
    chieh
 shou / sho
    しょう

More info & calligraphy:

Mistress / Concubine / Servant
concubine; I, your servant (deprecatory self-reference for women)
(1) (See 妾・めかけ) mistress; kept woman; concubine; (pronoun) (2) (archaism) (humble language) (feminine speech) (See 妾・わらわ) I; me

妾侍

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qiè shì
    qie4 shi4
ch`ieh shih
    chieh shih
maids and concubines

妾出

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 shoushutsu / shoshutsu
    しょうしゅつ
illegitimate (e.g. born to a mistress)

妾宅

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 shoutaku / shotaku
    しょうたく
house in which a mistress is kept

妾腹

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 shoufuku; mekakebara / shofuku; mekakebara
    しょうふく; めかけばら
illegitimate (e.g. born to a mistress)

侍妾

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shì qiè
    shi4 qie4
shih ch`ieh
    shih chieh
 jishou / jisho
    じしょう
concubine
concubine; mistress

外妾

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 gaishou / gaisho
    がいしょう
foreigner's mistress

妻妾

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qī qiè
    qi1 qie4
ch`i ch`ieh
    chi chieh
 saishou / saisho
    さいしょう
wives and concubines (of a polygamous man); harem
one's wife and mistress(es)

姬妾

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jī qiè
    ji1 qie4
chi ch`ieh
    chi chieh
concubine

嬖妾

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 heishou / hesho
    へいしょう
(archaism) beloved concubine; favorite mistress

寵妾


宠妾

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chǒng qiè
    chong3 qie4
ch`ung ch`ieh
    chung chieh
favored concubine

愛妾

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 aishou / aisho
    あいしょう
(See めかけ) beloved concubine; favourite concubine (e.g. of the shogun)

洋妾

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 youshou / yosho
    ようしょう
Westerner's mistress

男妾

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 danshou / dansho
    だんしょう
male paramour

納妾


纳妾

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nà qiè
    na4 qie4
na ch`ieh
    na chieh
to take a concubine

臣妾

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chén qiè
    chen2 qie4
ch`en ch`ieh
    chen chieh
 shinshō
(literary) I, your servant (self-appellation of a lower-rank female); (archaic) male and female slaves; subjects (of a ruler)
male and female servants

蓄妾

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 chikushou / chikusho
    ちくしょう
(noun/participle) keeping a mistress (concubine)

Variations:

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 warawa
    わらわ
(pronoun) (archaism) (humble language) (feminine speech) I; me

妾奉公

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 mekakeboukou / mekakeboko
    めかけぼうこう
(noun/participle) serving as a concubine

寵妾滅妻


宠妾灭妻

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chǒng qiè miè qī
    chong3 qie4 mie4 qi1
ch`ung ch`ieh mieh ch`i
    chung chieh mieh chi
favor the concubine and do away with the wife (idiom); spoil one's mistress and neglect one's wife

Variations:

目掛け
目掛

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 mekake; onname()(ok)
    めかけ; おんなめ(妾)(ok)
(dated) mistress; kept woman; concubine

Variations:
妾奉公
めかけ奉公

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 mekakeboukou / mekakeboko
    めかけぼうこう
(noun/participle) serving as a concubine

一盗二婢三妾四妓五妻

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 ittounihisanshoushigigosai / ittonihisanshoshigigosai
    いっとうにひさんしょうしぎごさい
(expression) (proverb) (the most thrilling relationships for a man are) another man's wife, a maidservant, a mistress, a prostitute, and finally his own wife

Variations:
手掛け
手懸け
手掛
手懸

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 tekake
    てかけ
(1) (手掛け, 手懸け, 手掛, 手懸 only) handle; (2) (dated) (also written as 妾女) (See 妾・めかけ) mistress; kept woman; concubine

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

This page contains 24 results for "妾" 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.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

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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