妻 qī
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qī
noun
wife
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '妻' n; Kroll 2015 '妻' qī, p. 352; Mathews 1931 '妻', p. 74; Unihan '妻') -
qì
verb
to marry off
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '妻' v 1; Kroll 2015 '妻' qì, p. 352; Mathews 1931 '賢妻', p. 74) -
qì
verb
to take for a wife
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '妻' v 2)
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- 糟糠妻 wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband
- 客妻 prostitute
- 夫妻 man and wife
- 继妻(繼妻) second wife
- 多妻制 polygamy
- 丧妻(喪妻) deceased wife
- 嫡妻 first consort
- 夫妻店 family-run shop
- 夫妻反目 man and wife fall out; marital strife
- 封妻荫子(封妻蔭子) (of a deserving official) to grant his wife a title and make his son heir to his titles
- 出妻 former [divorced] wife
- 箕帚妻 your wife to serve you
- 次妻 concubine
- 遗妻弃子(遺妻棄子) to abandon wife and children
- 一夫多妻 polygamy
- 妻离子散(妻離子散) a family torn apart
- 一夫一妻制 monogamy
- 贤妻(賢妻) my beloved wife
- 妻舅 wife's brothers
- 弃妻(棄妻) to divorced woman
- 正妻 first wife
- 霸妻 to use one's power and influence to take another man's wife for oneself
- 朋友妻不可欺 you should not covet your friend's wife
- 发妻(髮妻) first wife
- 少年夫妻老来伴(少年夫妻老來伴) husband and wife in youth, companions in old age
- 妻房 wife
- 初妻 first wife
- 丑妻近地家中宝(醜妻近地家中寶) an ugly wife is a treasure at home
- 后妻(後妻) second wife
- 娇妻(嬌妻) beautiful wife
- 半糖夫妻 weekend spouse; relationship involving a sugar-daddy
- 前妻 ex-wife; late wife
- 休妻 to separate from one's wife
- 夫妻肺片 popular Sichuan cold dish made of thinly sliced beef and beef offal
- 首妻 first wife
- 妻儿(妻兒) wife and child ; wife and child
- 夫妻两口(夫妻兩口) husband and wife
- 妻儿老小(妻兒老小) husband, wife, and children; family
- 令妻 respectful way to refer to a man's wife ; dear wife
- 妻党(妻黨) wife's family
- 妻父 father-in-law
- 贤妻良母(賢妻良母) a good wife and loving mother
- 妻女 wives and daughters
- 一夫一妻 lit. one husband one wife; monogamy
- 未婚妻 fiancée
- 妻弟 wife's younger brother
- 佔人妻女 to take somebody's wife and daughters
- 妻管严(妻管嚴) henpecked male
- 妻孥 wife and children
- 未娶妻 not yet married; bachelor
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- 卷二百零五 列傳第一百三十 列女 Volume 205 Biographies 130: Exemplary Women New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 73
- 卷二百〇一 列傳第八十八: 列女二 Volume 201 Biographies 88: Exemplary Women 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 64
- 卷二百 列傳第八十七: 列女一 Volume 200 Biographies 87: Exemplary Women 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 63
- 卷六十二 志第十五 五行一下 Volume 62 Treatises 15: Five Elements 1b History of Song 宋史 — count: 58
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- 卷八十四 列女傳 Volume 84: Biographies of Exemplary Women Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 56
- 卷三百〇二 列傳第一百九十 列女二 Volume 302 Biographies 190: Exemplary Women 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 54
- 卷二十 志第十 禮中 Volume 20 Treatises 10: Rites Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 45
- 卷九十一 列傳第七十九: 列女 Volume 91 Biographies 79: Exemplary Women History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 45
Collocations
- 取妻 (取妻) 取妻如之何 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧齊‧南山 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qi - Nan Shan — count: 15
- 妻如之何 (妻如之何) 取妻如之何 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧齊‧南山 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qi - Nan Shan — count: 4
- 女妻 (女妻) 人奪女妻而不怒 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 4
- 寡妻 (寡妻) 刑于寡妻 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧文王之什‧思齊 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Wen Wang - Si Zhai — count: 4
- 士妻 (士妻) 士妻食之 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 桓公 Lord Huan — count: 4
- 以为妻 (以為妻) 而以為妻 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 3
- 妻曰 (妻曰) 僖負羈之妻曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 3
- 请妻 (請妻) 齊侯請妻之 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧鄭‧有女同車 Lessons from the states - Odes of Zheng - You Nu Tong Che — count: 3
- 妻能 (妻能) 大夫妻能以禮自防也 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧召南‧草蟲 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Shao And The South - Cao Chong — count: 2
- 曰妻 (曰妻) 庶人曰妻 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曲禮下》 Summary of the Rules of Propriety Part 2 — count: 2