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Meaning of 妾

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妾
Pinyin: qiè
English Definition: concubine; I, your servant (deprecatory self-reference for women)
Chinese Definition:
①旧时男人娶的小老婆。
②谦辞,旧时女人自称:妾身。贱妾。
Total strokes: 8; Radical: 女
Ideographic:A woman 女 branded 辛 as a slave
Character Formation:
  • ⿱ Above to below
    • 辛 [ xīn ] bitter; toilsome, laborious; 8th heavenly stem
    • 女 [ nǚ ] woman, girl; female
Similar Characters: 妄
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Example Words
妻妾 qī qiè wives and concubines (of a polygamous man); harem
纳妾 nà qiè to take a concubine
臣妾 chén qiè (literary) I, your servant (self-appellation of a lower-rank female); (archaic) male and female slaves; subjects (of a ruler)
姬妾 jī qiè concubine
侍妾 shì qiè concubine
More:妾* | *妾 | *妾*
Example Sentences
1
他的妾住在示剑
,
也给他生了一个儿子
。
基甸与他起名叫亚比米勒
。
His concubine, who lived in Shechem, also bore him a son, whom he named Abimelech.
2
而在共产党的领导下
,
妾变成了堕落和腐败的象征
。
Under the Communists concubines became symbols of corruption and decadence.
3
他命令他所有的妻妾
(
妾
,
他没有正娶的女人
)
在他死后陪葬
。
He was tyrannical to the last, having ordered all his mistresses and concubines (he never married) buried alive with him after he was entombed.
4
封建时期
,
拥有多少妾也是一个男人地位和财富的象征
。
In Imperial times, concubines were symbols of status and wealth to the men that possessed them.
5
到了家里
,
用刀将妾的尸身切成十二块
,
使人拿着传送以色列的四境
。
When he reached home, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, limb by limb, into twelve parts and sent them into all the areas of Israel.