Dong Chinese dictionary

qiè

concubine

Depicts a woman (女) with a damaged reputation (䇂 is a pictograph of a tool used to tattoo the face of criminals as punishment).

Components

䇂 Iconic component

qiān

sickle, curved blade

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 䇂 than it was in ancient scripts.

女 Iconic component

nǚ, rǔ

woman

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

qiè

concubine; I, your servant (deprecatory self-reference for women)

Most common words with 妾

Component uses

Sound component in 4 characters (1 verified)

Sources