妃

妃	U+5983, 妃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5983

← 如
[U+5982]

CJK Unified Ideographs

妄 →
[U+5984]

Translingual

Han character

妃 (radical 38, 女+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 女尸山 (VSU), four-corner 4741₇, composition ⿰女己)

References

KangXi: page 255, character 22

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6061

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1027, character 11

Unihan data for U+5983

Chinese

simp. and trad.		妃

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (妃) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
圮	*brɯlʔ
妃	pʰɯːls, pʰɯl

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 女 (“woman”) + 卩 (“a kneeling man”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fēi (fei¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄟ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fei¹
Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): fi¹
Min Dong (BUC): hĭ
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): hui

(Teochew, Peng'im): hui¹
Wu (Wiktionary): fi (T1)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: fēi
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄟ
  - Wade–Giles: fei¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fei
  - IPA ^(key): /feɪ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: fei¹
  - Yale: fēi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fei¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: féi¹
  - IPA ^(key): /fei̯⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: fi¹
  - IPA: /fi⁴⁴/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: hĭ
  - IPA ^(key): /hi⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hui
  - Tâi-lô: hui
  - Phofsit Daibuun: huy
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hui⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hui³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hui⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hui⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hui⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: hui¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hui
  - IPA ^(key): /hui³³/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: fi (T1)
  - IPA ^(key): /fi⁵³/

Middle Chinese: /pʰʉi/, /pʰuʌi^H/▼

Rime
Character	妃	妃
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	滂 (2)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	微 (21)	灰 (42)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	芳非切	滂佩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʰʉi/	/pʰuʌi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/pʰʷɨi/	/pʰuoi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/pʰiuəi/	/pʰuɒi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pʰuj/	/pʰwəj^H/
Li Rong	/pʰiuəi/	/pʰuᴀi^H/
Wang Li	/pʰĭwəi/	/pʰuɒi^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/pʰwe̯i/	/pʰuɑ̆i^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fēi	pèi

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*pʰ[ə][j]/

(Zhengzhang): /*pʰɯːls/, /*pʰɯl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	妃
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fēi
Middle Chinese	‹ phjɨj ›
Old Chinese	/*pʰ[ə][j]/
English	consort; match
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	妃	妃
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	3061	3062
Phonetic component	妃	妃
Rime group	微	微
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	配	霏
Old Chinese	/*pʰɯːls/	/*pʰɯl/
Notes	見左傳	甲金文從巳從女表育兒之婦，非己聲

Definitions

妃

^† spouse; couple
(historical) imperial concubine
(historical) wife of a prince

Compounds

五妃廟／五妃庙
元妃 (yuánfēi)
后妃 (hòufēi)
天妃 (Tiānfēi)
太妃糖 (tàifēitáng)
妃匹
妃嬪／妃嫔 (fēipín)
妃子 (fēizi)
妃子笑
妃祿仙女／妃禄仙女
妃耦
妃色

婁妃／娄妃
嬪妃／嫔妃 (pínfēi)
宓妃
宸妃
帝妃 (dìfēi)
明妃
梅妃
楊貴妃／杨贵妃
江妃
洛浦宓妃
湘妃

湘妃竹
潘妃
潘妃步
潘妃金蓮／潘妃金莲
王妃 (wángfēi)
禿妃之髮／秃妃之发
虙妃
貴妃／贵妃 (guìfēi)
貴妃醉酒／贵妃醉酒
賢妃／贤妃
靈妃／灵妃

Japanese

Kanji

妃

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Go-on: ひ (hi, Jōyō); へ (he)
Kan-on: ひ (hi, Jōyō); はい (hai)
Kun: きさき (kisaki, 妃)

Alternative forms

后

Noun

妃 (hiragana きさき, rōmaji kisaki, alternative reading きさい, rōmaji kisai)

A ruler's wife; queen; empress.
- 1632: Diego Collado, Dictionarium sive thesauri linguae Iaponicae compendium, p. 112
  Regina, æ . reina . qisàqi .

Etymology 2

御- mi- (honorific prefix) + 女 me "woman"

Alternative forms

御妻

Noun

妃 (hiragana みめ, rōmaji mime)

A noble's wife.

Etymology 3

From Middle Chinese 妃 (pʰʉi)

Noun

妃 (hiragana ひ, rōmaji hi)

princess, consort

Korean

Hanja

妃 • (bi, bae) (hangeul 비, 배, revised bi, b, McCune–Reischauer pi, p)

wife, spouse
imperial concubine

Vietnamese

Han character

妃 (phi)

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