奴婢

奴婢

1. (literary, archaic) servants and maid-servants (as a combined category)
2. (literary, archaic) I; your humble servant (term of self-address used by servants, maid-servants and eunuchs when addressing the emperor, ministers, concubines, etc.)

The sense servants and maid-servants is an example of a 合稱／合称 (héchēng) in Chinese; the sense term of self-address is an example of a 自稱／自称 (zìchēng).

• 奴僕／奴仆 (núpú)

Superficially 奴(ぬ) (nu, “servant; slave”) + 婢(ひ) (hi, “maid, female slave”). Compare Mandarin 奴婢 (núbì, “núbì”), Hakka 奴婢 (“nùpî”).

• IPA^(key): [nɯ̟çi]

奴(ぬ)婢(ひ) • (nuhi) 

1. (historical) a slave, a person of the lowest two ranks of the five 賤民(せんみん) (senmin, “low caste, outcast”) ranks of the 律令制 (“Ritsuryō system”), who might be bought and sold, and was not permitted a family.
2. household slaves

• 官奴婢(かんぬひ) (kannuhi)
• 公奴婢(くぬひ) (kunuhi)
• 私奴婢(しぬひ) (shinuhi)

奴婢 • (nobi) (hangeul 노비)

1. hanja form^? of 노비 (“slave; servant”)

奴婢

1. chữ Hán form of nô tì (“slave; servant”)

奴婢

1. chữ Hán form of nô tì (“I/me”)