美姫

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Japanese[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3

Grade: S
kan’on

First appears in texts from the early 1800s, in a snippet purportedly from the Chinese classic Records of the Grand Historian.[1] Ultimately from Middle Chinese * (MC mijX ki, literally “beautiful + (feminine) beauty”). Compare Min Nan reading bí kì.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

()() (biki

  1. a beautiful woman

Etymology 2[edit]

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3

Grade: S
goon

Attachment of felicitous characters to the existing feminine name Miki.

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

()() (Miki

  1. a female given name

References[edit]

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN