"Concubine" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 èr fáng second branch of an extended family / concubine
 xiǎo lǎo pó concubine / mistress / (dialect) woman
 yí tài tai concubine
 piān fáng side room / concubine
 pīn fù mistress / concubine / kept woman
 jī woman / concubine / female entertainer (archaic)
 qiè concubine / I, your servant (deprecatory self-reference for women)
 yìng maid escorting bride to new home / concubine
 cè shì sideroom / concubine
 shù shì concubine
 shì qiè concubine
 jī qiè concubine
 yìng shì concubine (old)
 zào deputy / subordinate / concubine
 zào shì concubine
 xiǎo tài tai concubine / mistress
 fù shì concubine (old)
 xì yí concubine
 xiǎo nu:3 rén dainty and delicate girl / concubine
 rú fū ren (old) concubine
 niáng niang queen / empress / imperial concubine / Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 / or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West / mother / aunt
西 Xī shī Xishi (c. 450 BC), famous Chinese beauty, foremost of the four legendary beauties 四大美女[si4 da4 mei3 nu:3], given by King Gou Jian 勾踐|勾践[Gou1 Jian4] of Yue as concubine to King of Wu as part of a successful plan to destroy Wu
 guì fēi senior concubine / imperial consort
 fēi zi imperial concubine
 fú zhèng to set sth upright or straight / to promote an employee from part-time to full-time (or from deputy to principal) / (old) to raise from concubine to wife status
 shōu fáng to take as a concubine
 Diāo Chán Diaochan (-192), one of the four legendary beauties 四大美女[si4 da4 mei3 nu:3], in fiction a famous beauty at the break-up of Han dynasty, given as concubine to usurping warlord Dong Zhuo 董卓[Dong3 Zhuo2] to ensure his overthrow by fighting hero Lü / Bu 呂布|吕布[Lu:3 Bu4]
 Dá jǐ Daji (c. 11th century BC), concubine of the last Shang dynasty king Zhou Xin 紂辛|纣辛[Zhou4 Xin1]
 lěng gōng (in literature and opera) a place to which a monarch banishes a wife or concubine who falls from favor / (fig.) the doghouse / a state of disfavor
 yí niáng maternal aunt / father's concubine (old)
 pín fēi imperial concubine
 gōng rén imperial concubine or palace maid / imperial secretary (old)
 nà qiè to take a concubine
 fēi pín imperial concubine
 Bāo sì Baosi, concubine of King You of Zhou 周幽王[Zhou1 You1 wang2] and one of the famous Chinese beauties
 fēi imperial concubine
 niè son born of a concubine / disaster / sin / evil
 pín imperial concubine
 sì wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old)
 bà wáng bié jī The Conqueror Bids Farewell to His Favorite Concubine (tragic opera by Mei Lanfang 梅蘭芳|梅兰芳[Mei2 Lan2 fang1]) / Farewell My Concubine (1993 film by Chen Kaige)
 xū mistress, concubine / weak
 zuò xiǎo to become a concubine
 jī Japanese variant of 姬 / princess / imperial concubine
 chǒng shàn zhuān fáng an especially favored concubine (idiom)
 Lí Jī zhī Luàn Li Ji Rebellion in 657-651 BC, where concubine Li Ji tried to throne her son but was eventually defeated by Duke Wen of Jin 晉文公|晋文公[Jin4 Wen2 gong1]
 chǒng qiè favored concubine
 nà chǒng to take a concubine
 tǎo xiǎo (coll.) to take a concubine
 chǒng qiè miè qī favor the concubine and do away with the wife (idiom) / spoil one's mistress and neglect one's wife
 yē tíng palace residence of concubine / palace office
 lín xìng to go in person (of emperor) / to copulate with a concubine (of emperor)
 chǒng jī favorite concubine
 zhī zǐ son of a concubine or son of the wife other than her first
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