<Li> Jia Tanchun (simplified Chinese: 贾 探 春; traditional Chinese: 賈 探 春; pinyin: Jiǎ Tànchūn; Wade--Giles: Chia Tan - chun; Meaning: Seeking Spring) Baoyu's younger half - sister by Concubine Zhao . Extremely outspoken, she is almost as capable as Wang Xifeng . Wang Xifeng herself compliments her privately, but laments that she was "born in the wrong womb," since concubine children are not respected as much as those by first wives . She is also a very talented poet . Tanchun is nicknamed "Rose" for her beauty and her prickly personality . She later marries into a military family on the South Sea far away from home . </Li> <Li> Shi Xiangyun (simplified Chinese: 史湘云; traditional Chinese: 史湘雲; pinyin: Shǐ Xiāngyún; Wade--Giles: Shih Hsiang - yun; Meaning: Xiang River Clouds) Jia Baoyu's younger second cousin . Grandmother Jia's grandniece . Orphaned in infancy, she grows up under her wealthy maternal uncle and aunt who treats her unkindly . In spite of this Xiangyun is openhearted and cheerful . A comparatively androgynous beauty, Xiangyun looks good in men's clothes (once she put on Baoyu's clothes and Grandmother Jia thought she was a he), and loves to drink . She is forthright and without tact, but her forgiving nature takes the sting from her casually truthful remarks . She is well educated and as talented a poet as Daiyu or Baochai . Her young husband dies shortly after their marriage . She vows to be a faithful widow for the rest of her life . </Li> <Li> Miaoyu (Chinese: 妙 玉; pinyin: Miàoyù; Wade--Giles: Miao - yu; Hawkes / Minford translation: Adamantina; Meaning: Wonderful / Clever Jade) A young nun from Buddhist cloisters of the Rong - guo house . Extremely beautiful and learned, while also extremely aloof, haughty and unsociable . She also has an obsession with cleanliness . The novel says she was compelled by her illness to become a nun, and shelters herself under the nunnery to dodge political affairs . Her fate is not known after her abduction by bandits . </Li> <Li> Jia Yingchun (simplified Chinese: 贾 迎春; traditional Chinese: 賈 迎春; pinyin: Jiǎ Yíngchūn; Wade--Giles: Chia Ying - chun; Meaning: Welcoming Spring) Second female family member of the generation of the Jia household after Yuanchun, Yingchun is the daughter of Jia She, Baoyu's uncle and therefore his elder first cousin . A kind - hearted, weak - willed person, Yingchun is said to have a "wooden" personality and seems rather apathetic toward all worldly affairs . Although very pretty and well - read, she does not compare in intelligence and wit to any of her cousins . Yingchun's most famous trait, it seems, is her unwillingness to meddle in the affairs of her family . Eventually Yingchun marries an official of the imperial court, her marriage being merely one of her father's desperate attempts to raise the declining fortunes of the Jia family . The newly married Yingchun becomes a victim of domestic abuse and constant violence at the hands of her cruel, abusive husband . </Li>

One of the names for the secret chinese society