婢妾

Chinese

		slave girl; maid servant	concubine
trad. (婢妾)		婢	妾
simp. ^#(婢妾)		婢	妾

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bìqiè

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ ㄑㄧㄝˋ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bìqiè
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ ㄑㄧㄝˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bìciè
  - Wade–Giles: pi⁴-chʻieh⁴
  - Yale: bì-chyè
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bihchieh
  - Palladius: бице (bice)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕʰi̯ɛ⁵¹/

Noun

婢妾

(archaic) servant girls and concubines

Japanese

Kanji in this term
婢	妾
ひ Hyōgai	しょう Hyōgai
kan'on	on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ひしょー [hìshóó] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [çiɕo̞ː]

Noun

婢(ひ)妾(しょう) • (hishō) ^{←ひせふ (fisefu)^?}

servant girls and concubines
- 1942, Atsushi Nakajima, Mojika‎^[1]:
  
  第(だい)一(いち)の妃(ひ)ただ一人(ひとり)と共(とも)に火(ひ)に入(はい)ったという説(せつ)もあれば、数(すう)百(ひゃく)の婢(ひ)妾(しょう)を薪(まき)の火(ひ)に投(とう)じてから自(じ)分(ぶん)も火(ひ)に入(はい)ったという説(せつ)もある。
  Daīchi no hi tada hitori to tomo ni hi ni haitta to iu setsu mo areba, sūhyaku no hishō o maki no hi ni tōjite kara jibun mo hi ni haitta to iu setsu mo aru.
  There are some theories that he suicided by fire only with his first princess, or he cuicided by fire after he threw hundreds of servants into the fire.

Synonyms

婢(はしため) (hashitame)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
婢	妾

Noun

婢妾 • (bicheop) (hangeul 비첩)

hanja form^? of 비첩