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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- 一夫一妻制 monogamy
- 妻房 wife
- 娇妻(嬌妻) beautiful wife
- 出妻 former [divorced] wife
- 多妻制 polygamy
- 妻党(妻黨) wife's family
- 霸妻 to use one's power and influence to take another man's wife for oneself
- 一夫多妻 polygamy
- 遗妻弃子(遺妻棄子) to abandon wife and children
- 娶妻 to take a wife; to get married (man)
- 妻女 wives and daughters
- 夫妻两口(夫妻兩口) husband and wife
- 傍妻 concubine; mistress
- 朋友妻不可欺 you should not covet your friend's wife
- 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
- 继妻(繼妻) second wife
- 遗妻(遺妻) widow; the deceased's widow
- 未婚妻 fiancée
- 下妻 concubine
- 发妻(髮妻) first wife
- 妻父 father-in-law
- 妻子 wife ; wife and children
- 爱妻(愛妻) beloved wife
- 弃妻(棄妻) to divorced woman
- 贤妻(賢妻) my beloved wife
- 换妻(換妻) wife swapping
- 妻弟 wife's younger brother
- 夫妻 man and wife
- 柴米夫妻 married in order to have daily necessities
- 首妻 first wife
- 后妻(後妻) second wife
- 妻儿老小(妻兒老小) husband, wife, and children; family
- 妻孥 wife and children
- 妻离子散(妻離子散) a family torn apart
- 佔人妻女 to take somebody's wife and daughters
- 嫡妻 first consort
- 箕帚妻 your wife to serve you
- 妻管严(妻管嚴) henpecked male
- 一妻制 monogamy
- 宠妾灭妻(寵妾滅妻) favor the concubine and do away with the wife; spoil one's mistress and neglect one's wife
- 糟糠妻 wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband
- 贤妻良母(賢妻良母) a good wife and loving mother
- 露水夫妻 a couple in a short-lived, improper relationship
- 夫妻反目 man and wife fall out; marital strife
- 令妻 respectful way to refer to a man's wife ; dear wife
- 夫妻店 family-run shop
- 休妻 to separate from one's wife
- 一夫一妻 lit. one husband one wife; monogamy
- 前妻 ex-wife; late wife
- 妻小 wife ; wife and children
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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
- 卷一百三十 列傳第六十八: 列女 阿鄰妻 李寶信妻 韓慶民妻 雷婦師氏 康住住 李文妻 李英妻 相琪妻 阿魯真 撒合輦妻 許古妻 馮妙真 蒲察氏 烏古論氏 素蘭妻 忙哥妻 尹氏 白氏 聶孝女 仲德妻 寶符李氏 張鳳奴 Volume 130 Biographies 68: Exemplary Women - A Linqi, Libao Xinqi, Hanqing Minqi, Leifu Shishi, Kang Zhuzhu, Li Wenqi, Li Yingqi, Xiang Qiqi, A Luzhen, Sahe Nianqi, Xu Guqi, Feng Miaozhen, Pu Chashi, Wugu Lunshi, Su Lanqi, Mang Geqi, Yin Shi, Bai Shi, Nie Xiaonu, Zhong Deqi, Bao Fulishi, Zhang Fengnu History of Jin 金史 — count: 56
- 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
- 卷二十 志第十 禮中 Volume 20 Treatises 10: Rites Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — 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
- 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
- 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
- 子妻 (子妻) 以其子妻之 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 5. 《公冶長》Gong Ye Chang — 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
- 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
- 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
- 妻赵 (妻趙) 以叔隗妻趙衰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 2