ぬひ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ぬひ – see the following entry.
【奴婢】
[noun] (historical) a slave, a person of the lowest two ranks of the five 賤民(せんみん) (senmin, “low caste, outcast”) ranks of the 律令制 (“Ritsuryō system”), who might be bought and sold, and was not permitted a family.
[noun] household slaves
(This term, ぬひ (nuhi), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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