| Chinese Text Project |
| 妻 U+59BB |  Seal script |  Jinwen |  Jiaguwen |  Jianbo | 𡜈 Semantic variant | 𡜌 Semantic variant |
| Radical: | 女+ 5 strokes = 8 strokes total. |
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| References: | Guangyun: p.87#24 p.372#20 Kangxi: p.257#30 Cihai: p.380r6c01 GSR: 592.a Hanyu: v2,p1036#02 |
| Composition: | Component of: 𠉯 凄 𨹷 悽 捿 淒 𪥼 郪 啛 棲 𫅆 𬐢 㼮 䃀 緀 萋 𫋂 褄 𠬎 𫌿 [More] |
| Mandarin: | qī qì ㄑㄧ ㄑㄧˋ |
| Cantonese: | cai1 cai3 |
| Tang reconstruction: | *tsei |
| Shuowen: | 《女部》妻：婦與夫齊者也。从女从屮从又。又，持事，妻職也。 |
| Guangyun: | 《廣韻·上平聲·齊·妻》妻：齊也，七稽切，又七計切，十。 《廣韻·去聲·霽·砌》妻：以女妻人。又七兮切。 |
| Kangxi: | 《康熙字典·女部·五》妻：〔古文〕𡜌𡜈《廣韻》七稽切《集韻》《韻會》《正韻》千西切，𠀤音凄。《說文》妻，與己齊者也。《詩·邶風》士如歸妻，迨冰未泮。又令妻，令善之妻。《詩·魯頌》令妻壽母。又妻曰鄕里。《南史·張彪傳》呼妻曰：我不忍令鄕里落他處。《姚寬曰》猶會稽人言家里。又《梵書·蓮經註》佛有妻，名耶須。又《集韻》千咨切，恣平聲。義同。又七計切，音砌。以女嫁人曰妻之。《論語》以其子妻之。一曰妻者，判合也。夫者，天也。故於字夫正而妻偏。 |
| Fanqie: | 七稽 (《廣韻·上平聲·齊·妻》) 七計 (《廣韻·上平聲·齊·妻》) 七計 (《廣韻·去聲·霽·砌》) 七兮 (《廣韻·去聲·霽·砌》) |
| Unihan definition: | wife |
Example usage
| 《論語·公冶長》: | 子謂公冶長，「可妻也。」 |
| The Master said of Gong Ye Chang that he might be wived. | |
| 《孟子·盡心上》: | 所謂西伯善養老者，制其田里，教之樹畜，導其妻子，使養其老。 |
| The expression, "The chief of the West knows well how to nourish the old," refers to his regulation of the fields and dwellings, his teaching them to plant the mulberry and nourish those animals, and his instructing the wives and children, so as to make them nourish their aged. | |
| 《禮記·服問》: | 傳曰：「有從輕而重，公子之妻為其皇姑。」 |
| The Directory for Mourning says, 'There are cases in which parties wear deep mourning, while those, in consequence of their connexion with whom they assume it, wear only light.' Such is the mourning for her husband's mother by the wife of the son of a ruler (by a concubine). | |
| 《孝經·孝治》: | 治家者，不敢失於臣妾，而況於妻子乎？ |
| The heads of clans did not dare to slight their servants and concubines. How much less would they slight their wives and sons! | |
| 《揚子法言》: | 曰：「離也，火妻滅子，以求反於慶忌，實蛛蝥之劘也。」 |
| Yangzi said: He allowed his wife and children to be burned to ashes in order to get close enough to Qing Ji to assassinate him. Though he might be outstanding among spiders and insects. | |
| 《墨子·辭過》: | 當今之君，其蓄私也，大國拘女累千，小國累百，是以天下之男多寡無妻，女多拘無夫，男女1失時，故民少。 |
| The present rulers of large states retain as many women as a thousand in their household and those of small states as many as a hundred. Therefore men in the empire are mostly without wife and women without husband. The functions of men and women are prevented and the population becomes small. | |
| 《莊子·德充符》: | 婦人見之，請於父母曰『與為人妻，寧為夫子妾』者，十數而未止也。 |
| His wife, when she saw him (ugly as he was), represented to her parents, saying, "I had more than ten times rather be his concubine than the wife of any other man." | |
| 《商君書·畫策》: | 疆國之民，父遺其子，兄遺其弟，妻遺其夫，皆曰：「不得，無返。」 |
| With the people of a strong state, the father, in making a parting bequest to his son, the elder brother to his younger brother, the wife to her husband, all say: 'Do not return unless you win.' | |
| 《史記·五帝本紀》: | 於是堯妻之二女，觀其德於二女 |
| He then married his two daughters to Shun, and watched his behaviour towards them. | |
| 《荀子·大略》: | 無分義，則一妻一妾而亂。 |
| 《說苑·雜言》: | 華舟杞梁之妻，善哭其夫而變國俗。 |
| 《春秋繁露·王道》: | 諸侯來朝者得褒，邾妻儀父稱字，滕薛稱侯，荊得人，介葛盧得名。 |
| 《韓詩外傳·卷二》: | 其妻之市，未返，楚王使使者賚金百鎰，造門曰：「大王使臣奉金百鎰，願請先生治河南。」 |
| 《大戴禮記》: | 孔子遂言曰：「昔三代明王之政，必敬其妻、子也有道。」 |
| 《白虎通德論·爵》: | 故夫尊於朝，妻榮於室，隨夫之行，故《禮郊特牲》曰：「婦人無爵，坐以夫之齒。」 |
| 《新書·諭誠》: | 及趙襄子破智伯，豫讓劑面而變容，吞炭而為噎，乞其妻所，而妻弗識。 |
| 《新序·善謀》: | 故從母言，是為賢母，從妻言，是必不免為妒婦 |
| 《中論·法象》: | 故雖妻妾不可得而黷也，雖朋友不可得而狎也。 |
| 《孔子家語·相魯》: | 有公慎氏者，妻淫不制。 |
| 《潛夫論·遏利》: | 楚鬭文子三為令尹，而有飢色，妻子凍餒，朝不及夕。 |
| 《論衡·吉驗》: | 朔死，其妻有遺腹子。 |
| 《太玄經·戾》: | 次四，夫妻反道，維家之保。 |
| 《風俗通義·六國》: | 初，懿氏卜妻之，其繇曰：「是謂『鳳凰于飛，和鳴鏘鏘。』」 |
| 《孔叢子·廣義》: | 凡無妻、無夫，通謂之寡。 |
| 《申鑒·雜言上》: | 寵妻愛妾，幸矣。 |
| 《新語·無為》: | 齊桓公好婦人之色，妻姑姊妹，而國中多淫於骨肉。 |
| 《獨斷·卷上》: | 又三老，老謂久也、舊也、壽也，皆取首妻男女完具者，古者天子親袒割牲，執醬而饋，三公設几，九卿正履，使者安車輭輪送迎而至其家，天子獨拜于屏，其明旦三老詣闕謝，以其禮過厚故也。 |
| 《蔡中郎集·獨斷》: | 諸侯一取九女，象九州，一妻、八妾。 |
| 《列子·天瑞》: | 思士不妻而感，思女不夫而孕。 |
| 《文子·符言》: | 天之道其猶響之報聲也，德積則福生，禍積則怨生，官敗於官茂，孝衰於妻子，患生於憂解，病甚於且瘉，故「慎終如始，無敗事也。」 |
| 《列仙傳·酒客》: | 窮貧，梁市中賈人多以女妻而迎之，或去或來。 |
| 《老子河上公章句》: | 修之於家，其德乃餘，修道於家，父慈子孝，兄友弟順，夫信妻貞。 |
| 《韓非子·揚權》: | 夫妻持政，子無適從。 |
| 《申不害·大體》: | 夫一妻擅夫，眾婦皆亂。 |
| 《慎子·德立》: | 立正妻者，不使嬖妾疑焉。 |
| 《管子·輕重己》: | 無妻無子，謂之老鰥。 |
| 《吳子·料敵》: | 厚其父母妻子，勸賞畏罰，此堅陳之士，可與持久。 |
| 《尉繚子·治本》: | 故充腹有粒，蓋形有縷，夫在芸耨，妻在機杼，民無二事，則有儲蓄，夫無雕文刻鏤之事，女無繡飾纂組之作 |
| 《淮南子·齊俗訓》: | 故身自耕，妻親織，以為天下先 |
| 《呂氏春秋·求人》: | 堯傳天下於舜，禮之諸侯，妻以二女，臣以十子，身請北面朝之，至卑也。 |
| 《尹文子·大道上》: | 田駢曰：「天下之士，莫不處其門庭，臣其妻子，必遊宦諸侯之朝者，利引之也。」 |
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