姬
Meanings
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- 1.surname Ji
- 2.family name of the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty 周代[Zhōu dài] (1046–256 BC)
- 1.woman
- 2.concubine
- 3.female entertainer (archaic)
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- 1.name of a river where the Yellow Emperor legendarily dwelt
- 2.a surname, legendarily originated from the Yellow Emperor; used by the ruling family of the Zhou dynasty
- 3.the Zhou dynasty
- 4.title for a princess or noblewoman of the Zhou royal line
- 5.lady (ancient honorific for women)
- 6.beauty; beautiful woman
- 7.concubine
- 8.a rank of palace lady in the Han dynasty, below 婕妤 (jiéyú) and above 八子
- 9.female entertainer; singing or dancing girl
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *klɯ, *lɯ): semantic 女 (“woman; matrilateral family line; family name”) + phonetic 𦣞 (yí). ; Zhou dynastic surname : However, Pulleyblank (2000) points out that "there seems to be no record of a Ji River outside the myth" of the Yellow Emperor Instead, he suggests an etymological connection between "the two intermarrying moieties, a ruling clan and its collateral, wife-supplying counterpart": 姬 (OC *(C)ɰə̀ɰ) and 姜 (*(C)ɰàŋ). He also points to other word-pairs, including 似 (MC ziX, “to resemble”) < *-əɰʔ and 像 (MC zjangX, “to imitate, image”) < *-aŋʔ, which display the phonetic correspondences: *-ɰ vs. *-ŋ as well *-ə- vs. *-a- (ibid.) ; lady (ancient laudatory title for women) ; "gay"
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