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 mijX ki, 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)

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)

a female given name

References

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

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