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Translingual

Han character

(radical 38 +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 女尸中中 (VSLL) or X女尸中中 (XVSLL), four-corner 41417, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 260, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6229
  • Dae Jaweon: page 526, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1043, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+59EB

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character, , is a variant form of .)

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
ひめ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese. Originally /pi1me1/. *[pime]][ɸime][hime]. Compound of (hi, sun) + (me, woman).[1][2] The male equivalent is (hiko).

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana ひめ, romaji hime)

  1. (euphemistic) a woman
  2. a noblewoman, a lady, a princess
  3. (slang) in the Kyōto and Ōsaka areas, a prostitute
  4. short for 姫糊 (himenori), a kind of starch glue made from boiled-down rice

Prefix

(hiragana ひめ, romaji hime-)

  1. prefix expressing cuteness or smallness

Derived terms

Synonyms

See also

References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

(hui) (hangeul , revised hui, McCune-Reischauer hŭi, Yale huy)

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