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Mandarin · pinyin nèi rén

my wife (humble)

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內: nèi · inside, interior; domestic
人: rén · man; people; mankind; someone else
内: nèi · inside

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4–2 · nei4 ren2

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noun

(literary, humble) (one's own) wife or concubine
a female palace official, palace maid, or female palace entertainer
a female servant in the home of a bureaucrat or aristocrats

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