Lady Abahai

Abahai
阿巴亥
Empress of the Qing dynasty
(posthumously)
Portrait of Empress Xiaoliewu in court dress, by anonymous painter
Born1590 (1590)
Ula City, Manchuria (in present-day Jilin City)
Died1 October 1626(1626-10-01) (aged 35–36)
Mukden Palace (in present-day Shenyang)
Burial
Spouse
(m. 1601; died 1626)
Issue
Posthumous name
Empress Xiaolie Gongmin Xianzhe Renhe Zantian Lisheng Wu (孝烈恭敏獻哲仁和贊天儷聖武皇后) (1650–1653)
ClanUla-Nara (烏拉那拉; by birth)
Aisin-Gioro (by marriage)
FatherMantai

Empress Xiaoliewu (1590 – 1 October 1626), of the Ula-Nara clan, personal name Abahai, was a wife of Nurhaci. She was 31 years his junior.

Abahai was erroneously identified with Hong Taiji, Nurhaci's eighth son and successor, in earlier sources.