妾
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concubine; I, your servant (deprecatory self-reference for women)
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 女 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 妾
- Common rank
- #3,022
- Unicode
- U+59BE
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Formation & memory
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Words with 妾
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 三妻四妾 | (idiom) to have many wives and concubines; to have a harem | |
| 妻妾成群 | to have many wives and concubines; to have a harem | |
| 纳妾 | to take a concubine | |
| 妾室 | concubine | |
| 宠妾灭妻 | favor the concubine and do away with the wife (idiom); spoil one's mistress and neglect on… | |
| 臣妾 | (literary) I, your servant (self-appellation of a lower-rank female); (archaic) male and f… | |
| 妻妾 | wives and concubines (of a polygamous man); harem | |
| 姬妾 | concubine | |
| 宠妾 | favored concubine | |
| 侍妾 | concubine | |
| 妾侍 | maids and concubines |
Sound family
These characters use 妾 as their sound component — compare how they read.