姫
姫 — jin, hui
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 삼갈 진, 여자 희
- Romanization
- jin, hui
- English
- beauty; imperial concubine
- Mandarin
- jī
- Japanese on'yomi
- シン, キ, イ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- ひめ ひめ-
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,566 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 女 (38, 6 residual)
- Unicode
- U+59EB
Parts that make up 姫
How 姫 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 姫 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 女, 臣.
Japanese words with 姫
- 姫ひめ young lady of noble birth; princess (esp. in Western contexts, tales, etc.); girl
- 舞姫まいひめ female dancer; dancing girl; danseuse
- 歌姫うたひめ songstress; diva
- 姫君ひめぎみ daughter of a person of high rank (esp. eldest daughter)
- 美姫びき beautiful maiden; beauty
- 姫様ひめさま princess; daughter of a nobleman
- 乙姫おとひめ younger princess; Oto Hime; Princess of the Dragon Palace (from the story of Urashima Tarō)
- 織姫おりひめ woman textile worker; Vega (star in the constellation Lyra); Alpha Lyrae
- 山姫やまひめ mountain goddess
- 姫垣ひめがき low fence
- 姫宮ひめみや princess
- 姫鱒ひめます kokanee salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
Other hanja read “진”
Other hanja with radical 女
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