妻

妻 (radical 38, 女+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十中女 (JLV), four-corner 5040₄, composition ⿱⿻一肀女)

• KangXi: page 257, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6140
• Dae Jaweon: page 522, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1036, character 2
• Unihan data for U+59BB

Historical forms of the character 妻
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 肀 (“hand”) + 女 (“woman”) ― a man grabbing a woman's hair to show ownership (marriage by capture).

妻

1. wife

妻

1. ^† to give a wife to; to give as a wife; to become married to a man
2. ^† to marry a woman

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. spouse

• Go-on: さい (sai, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: せい (sei)
• Kun: つま (tsuma, 妻, Jōyō); めあわせる (meawaseru, 妻せる)

From 端 (tsuma, “side, edge”), indicating the person who is at the side of someone: a spouse.[1] Compare the English expression better half.

This term originally referred to either a male (husband) or female (wife) spouse. In modern usage, this term refers only to a female spouse.[1]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) つ​ま [tsúꜜmà] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [t͡sɨᵝma̠]

• 夫 (archaic)

妻 (hiragana つま, rōmaji tsuma)

1. (archaic) a spouse
2. (humble, only refers to one's own) a wife (married woman)
   • 1999 February 15 [Jun 20 1983], Tezuka, Osamu, “第８話　未知への挑戦 [Chapter 8: Challenge of the Third Kind]”, in ブラック・ジャック [Black Jack], volume 18 (fiction), 8th edition, Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 176:

     先生………………私の妻は美しいでしょう？
     ああ！すばらしい美人ですよ！
     でしょう？なにしろ昨年のミス・イウレガだったのですから

     Sensei……………… Watashi no tsuma wa utsukushii deshō?
     Ā! Subarashii bijin desu yo!
     Deshō? Nani shiro sakunen no Misu Iurega datta no desu kara

     Doctor……………… Do you think my wife is beautiful?
     Sure! She’s a gorgeous lady!
     I know, right? She was last year’s Miss Iurega after all

• (one’s own wife): 家 (か)内 (ない) (kanai)
• (someone else's wife): 奥 (おく)さん (okusan), 奥様 (おくさま) (okusama)
• (Kansai): 嫁 (よめ) (yome)
• (spouse in general): 配偶者 (はいぐうしゃ) (haigūsha)

By extension from the at the side sense.[1]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) つま​ [tsùmáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [t͡sɨᵝma̠]

妻 (hiragana つま, rōmaji tsuma)

1. a side dish
2. a tangent, a digression, something to the side of the main thing

From Middle Chinese 妻 (MC t͡sʰei, t͡sʰei^H, “wife”).

• On’yomi: Goon
  • (Tokyo) さ​い [sáꜜì] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [sa̠i]

妻 (hiragana さい, rōmaji sai)

1. my wife
   • Isikawa Takuboku, Romazi Nikki

     Yo wa Sai wo aisiteru; aisiteru kara koso kono Nikki wo yomase taku nai no da.

     I love my Wife; it is precisely because I love her that I do not want her to read this Diary.

• Used chiefly in written texts such as letters.

妻 • (cheo) (hangeul 처, revised cheo, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏ)

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妻 (thê, thế)

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