美姫
Japanese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Kanji in this term | |
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美 | 姫 |
び Grade: 3 |
き Grade: S |
kan’on |
First appears in texts from the early 1800s, in a snippet purportedly from the Chinese classic Records of the Grand Historian.[1] Ultimately from Middle Chinese *美姬 (MC mijX ki, literally “beautiful + (feminine) beauty”). Compare Min Nan reading bí kì.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Etymology 2 edit
Kanji in this term | |
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美 | 姫 |
み Grade: 3 |
き Grade: S |
goon |
Attachment of felicitous characters to the existing feminine name Miki.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
- a female given name
References edit
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN