Hi, Richard I saw your question title and misunderstood that you were studying Chinese. However some of the Japanese words are original from chinese characters, so I ll just share the chinese meaning of these characters with you, hopefully you ll understand more. "姫" has three meanings in Chinese: a complimentary term for women used in ancient China a title used in ancient China for a concubine a professional female singer "王女" can be seen as"王"+"女", so it means either the daughter of the empror or the woman of the empror.