DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

臣妾

Mandarin · pinyin chén qiè

(literary) I, your servant (self-appellation of a lower-rank female)
(archaic) male and female slaves
subjects (of a ruler)

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

臣: chén · minister, statesman, official; Kangxi radical 131
妾: qiè · concubine

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

2–4 · chen2 qie4

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

2character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

臣妾 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources 1 Cantonese reading

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

san4 cip3

Cantonese word readings for 臣妾. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

CanCLID contributors · CC BY 4.0 · source & license · Data pack