姫

See also: 姬
姫 U+59EB, 姫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59EB
← 姪
[U+59EA] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 姬 →
[U+59EC]

Translingual

Han character

姫 (radical 38, 女+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 女尸中中 (VSLL) or X女尸中中 (XVSLL), four-corner 41417, composition ⿰女臣)

References

  • KangXi: page 260, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6229
  • Dae Jaweon: page 526, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1043, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+59EB

Chinese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 姫 – see 姬 (“beauty; imperial concubine; etc.”).
(This character, 姫, is a variant form of 姬.)

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.
 姫

Pronunciation

Definitions

姫

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Japanese

Kanji

姫

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 姬)

Readings

As shinjitai kanji of 姬:

As unsimplified kanji 姫:

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
姫
ひめ
Grade: S
kun’yomi

/pi1me1/ invalid IPA characters (11): *[pime] → [ɸime] → [hime]

From Old Japanese. Compound of 日 (hi, “sun”, a prefix or appellation used in reference to the imperial family) +‎ 女 (me, “woman”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

姫 (hiragana ひめ, rōmaji hime)

  1. a noblewoman, a lady, a princess
    • 2007 October 20, Hiroshi, Izawa; Kotaro, Yamada, “最さい終しゅう話わ　それぞれの道みちへ [Final Chapter: Epilog]”, in ファイアーエムブレム 覇者の剣 [Fire Emblem: Sword of Champions], volume 5 (fiction, in Japanese), Jump Remix edition, Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 354:
      ラグナの天 (てん)馬 (ま)姫 (ひめ)セルディア
      Raguna no Tenmahime Serudia
      Serdia, Pegasus Princess of Ragna
  2. (euphemistic) a woman
  3. (slang) in the Kyōto and Ōsaka areas, a prostitute
  4. short for 姫糊 (himenori), a kind of starch glue made from boiled-down rice

Prefix

姫 (hiragana ひめ, rōmaji hime-)

  1. prefix expressing cuteness or smallness

Derived terms

Synonyms

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

姫 • (hui) (hangeul 희, revised hui, McCune–Reischauer hŭi, Yale huy)

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