美姫

美姫

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
美	姫
び Grade: 3	き 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 美姬 (MC mˠiɪ^X kɨ, literally “beautiful + (feminine) beauty”). Compare Min Nan reading bí kì.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) び​き [bíꜜkì] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
• IPA^(key): [bʲikʲi]

Noun

美(び)姫(き) • (biki) 

1. a beautiful woman

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
美	姫
み Grade: 3	き Grade: S
goon

Attachment of felicitous characters to the existing feminine name Miki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mʲikʲi]

Proper noun

美(み)姫(き) • (Miki) 

1. a female given name

References

1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN