Saturday 10 March 2012
Royal wives and concubines - FEI
Fei is a word often translated as Princess but bear in mind it refers to someone who is bound in a relationship to another aristocrat. I rather suspect the radical tang form started with an aspirate p or it was something like that sound in Fuji that occassionally gets transliterated as a H so you see Huzi instead of Fuji in some texts.
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aristocrat,
cantonese,
chinese,
classical chinese,
concubine,
dialect,
fei,
hakka,
hanzi,
hi. kisaki,
japanese,
kanji,
mandarin,
min,
princess,
title,
unicode,
wive
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