妾
qiè

concubine

妾 qiè
concubine verb
a secondary wife in a polygamous household, common in traditional Chinese society

在古代社会，男主人除了正妻之外还可以纳妾。

zài gǔ​dài shè​huì, nán​zhǔ​rén chú​le zhèng​qī zhī​wài hái kě​yǐ nà​qiè.

In ancient society, a male head of the household could take concubines in addition to his primary wife.

I (humble) noun
a deprecatory first-person pronoun used by women when addressing their husband or superiors in ancient times

妾有一言，请君听之。

qiè yǒu yī yán, qǐng jūn tīng zhī.

I have something to say; please listen.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,242nd most common 7.28 per million
Movie subtitles
3,710th most common 1.05 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.28 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
5.32 per million

Details
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+59BE

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)