fēi
wife
Depicts a woman (女) and a man (卩) together.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 妃
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
imperial concubine | ||
princess (in Europe) | ||
senior concubine | ||
imperial concubine | ||
Yang Yuhuan 楊玉環|杨玉环[YángYùhuán] or Yang Guifei (719-756), famous Tang beauty, consort of Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗[TángXuánzōng], blamed for extravagance and killed as a scapegoat during the An-Shi Rebellion 安史之亂|安史之乱[AnShǐzhīLuàn] |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pʰ[ə][j] | phj+j | fēi | consort; match |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.2814% of movies
2831st most common character in movies
2574th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+5983 |
Shuowen | “妃，匹也。从女，己聲。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.850-851
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