jié​yú

second-rank concubine

jié, qiè handsome

Components

Meaning component
nǚ, nü woman

woman

Sound component
jié, qiè a type of sickness

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangʔseb
Unicodetziɛp

說文解字

女字也。从女疌聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

beautiful

Components

Meaning component
nǚ, nü woman

woman

Sound component
give

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangla
Unicodeiu

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang