Keyword
concubine
- Frequency
- #3157
- Strokes
- 8
Readings
qiè
Mnemonic
A woman 女 branded 辛 as a slave
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in characters
Used in vocabulary
妾
concubine; I, your servant (deprecatory self-reference for women)
妻妾
wives and concubines (of a polygamous man); harem
纳妾
to take a concubine
臣妾
(literary) I, your servant (self-appellation of a lower-rank female); (archaic) male and female slaves; subjects (of a ruler)
三妻四妾
(idiom) to have many wives and concubines; to have a harem
侍妾
concubine
宠妾
favored concubine