prostitute

A working  woman  also provides the pronunciation

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

支 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

zhī

  

support, hold up

Evolution

妓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
妓 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

prostitute

Most common words with 妓
Freq.
Word
Meaning

妓女

prostitute

prostitute

妓院

brothel

娼妓

prostitute

艺妓

艺伎[yì​jì]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.0066% of movies

1611th most common character in movies

2777th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+5993

Shuowen

“妓,婦人小物也。从女,支聲。讀若跂行。”


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