Chinese symbol for “concubine”
妾
qiè
concubine; I, your servant (deprecatory self-reference for women)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for concubine is 妾 (qiè), defined as: concubine; I, your servant (deprecatory self-reference for women).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “concubine”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小老婆 | xiǎo lǎo pó | concubine; mistress |
| 姨太太 | yí tài tai | concubine |
| 侍妾 | shì qiè | concubine |
| 细姨 (細姨) | xì yí | concubine |
| 姬 | jī | woman; concubine |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 妾.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 妻妾 | qī qiè | wives and concubines (of a polygamous man); harem |
| 纳妾 (納妾) | nà qiè | to take a concubine |
| 臣妾 | chén qiè | (literary) I, your servant (self-appellation of a lower-rank female); (archaic) male and female slaves |
| 三妻四妾 | sān qī sì qiè | (idiom) to have many wives and concubines; to have a harem |
| 侍妾 | shì qiè | concubine |
| 宠妾 (寵妾) | chǒng qiè | favored concubine |
See also: Japanese symbol for “concubine”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.