noun #80,400

Meanings

  1. 1 a maidservant; a slave girl (in old society)

Examples

Cóngqián fùrén jiā yǎng zhe hěnduō núbì.
In the old days wealthy families kept many maidservants.

Tips

register
is a literary, historical word for a female household servant. In modern Chinese it appears mostly in the compounds 奴婢 (servants / bondmaids) and 婢女 (a maid), and in historical fiction, not in everyday speech.

Components

radical
woman; female
The 'woman' on the left marks as a female servant and is its indexing radical.
phonetic
bēi
low / humble; phonetic element
The right side gives the sound and adds a 'lowly' flavor fitting a servant's status, linking to the phonetic family.

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