竹夫人是一种东亚传统的消暑用具，又称竹夹膝、竹姬、青奴、竹奴、竹妃，一般由竹或竹篾制成。在现在的中国已不常见，在现代的韩国、日本及东南亚依然是常见的居家用具。

竹夫人一般是由竹条编织成四周漏空、上下封闭的笼状物体，或用一段竹子雕刻镂空，并打通中间的节制作而成，一般都不长过1米。人们在夏天暑热时候，可以怀抱一个竹夫人，起到通气降暑的作用。

A bamboo wife (竹夫人; Chinese: zhúfūrén; Korean: 죽부인, jukbuin; Japanese: chikufujin), also known as a Dutch wife or in Tagalog as kawil (literally, fish hook or chain), is a hollow bamboo bolster roughly the size of a human body.

The origin of the English term "Dutch wife" is thought via folk etymology to be from the Dutch colony of Indonesia where Dutch traders would spend long periods away from their wives. A more likely explanation is the link with dutch courage, dutch auction or to go dutch. Here the use of the word dutch was something dodgy or not regular. It arose in the 17th century where there were a series of Anglo-Dutch wars and the Dutch were seen as untrustworthy by the English. This then carried over to American and the colonies and sees this use of Dutch applied in other circumstances such as in the phrase "you can trust me or I am a Dutchman". It has nothing to do with Dutch women as they really are as wives nor otherwise.