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Kanji Detail for 媵 - "attendant bride, send"
媵
- Meaning
媵 means "attendant bride, send."
Attendant bride - A woman who accompanies a noblewoman when she marries.
Send - To give; to send along with something else.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
maid who accompanies bride to her new home; to escort a concubine
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
a maid who accompanies bride to her new home; to escort; a concubine
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
maid escorting bride to new home; concubine
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
concubine; escort; a maid who accompanies a bride to her new home
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Sending off a daughter. Anciently, when a feudal lord's principal daughter was married, younger sisters and nieces accompanied her as 媵. These became secondary wives, hence called 妾媵, as they were the ones sent along. | Giving someone a gift along with something else is also called 媵. Such as sending a letter with an accompanying gift, saying "accompanied by such-and-such item."
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