奴婢

奴婢

Chinese

		slave	slave girl; maid servant
simp. and trad. (奴婢)		奴	婢

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): núbì

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄨˊ ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nou⁴ pei⁵
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): nù-pî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: núbì
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄨˊ ㄅㄧˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nubih
    • IPA ^(key): /nu³⁵ pi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: nou⁴ pei⁵
    • Yale: nòuh péih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nou⁴ pei⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: nou⁴ péi⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /nou̯²¹ pʰei̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: nù-pî
    • Hakka Romanization System: nuˇ bi´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: nu² bi¹
    • IPA: /nu¹¹ pi²⁴/

Noun

奴婢

1. (literary, archaic) servants and maid-servants (as a combined category)
2. (literary, archaic) I; your humble servant (term of self-address used by servants, maid-servants and eunuchs when addressing the emperor, ministers, concubines, etc.)

Usage notes

The sense servants and maid-servants is an example of a 合稱／合称 (héchēng) in Chinese; the sense term of self-address is an example of a 自稱／自称 (zìchēng).

See also

• 奴僕／奴仆 (núpú)