concubine or mistress; an informal name for a woman taken as a secondary wife in a traditional marriage

[suffix] used to form nouns from noun, verb, or adjective roots

small; tiny; few; minor; in area, volume, quantity, or power, being less than average or less than the object of comparison; opposite of 大 dà

(colloquial) an old woman, sometimes used disparagingly; in older literature, often referred to an elderly female servant