妻
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Translingual
Han character
妻 (radical 38, 女+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十中女 (JLV), four-corner 50404, composition ⿱⿻一肀女)
References
- 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
Chinese
simp. and trad. |
妻 |
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Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 妻 | ||
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Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Characters in the same phonetic series (妻) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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Old Chinese | |
妻 | *sʰiːl, *sʰiːls |
萋 | *sʰiːl |
淒 | *sʰiːl |
凄 | *sʰiːl |
悽 | *sʰiːl |
鶈 | *sʰiːl |
郪 | *sʰiːl, *sʰil |
緀 | *sʰiːl, *sʰiːlʔ |
霋 | *sʰiːl |
棲 | *siːl |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 肀 (“hand”) + 女 (“woman”) ― a man grabbing a woman's hair to show ownership (marriage by capture).
Pronunciation 1
Synonyms
Compounds
Derived terms from 妻
Pronunciation 2
Japanese
Etymology 1
Kanji in this term |
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妻 |
つま Grade: 5 |
kun’yomi |
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]
Alternative forms
- 夫 (archaic)
Noun
- (archaic) a spouse
- (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
- Sensei……………… Watashi no tsuma wa utsukushii deshō?
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Synonyms
Noun
- a side dish
- a tangent, a digression, something to the side of the main thing
Etymology 3
Kanji in this term |
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妻 |
さい Grade: 5 |
on’yomi |
From Middle Chinese 妻 (MC t͡sʰei, t͡sʰeiH, “wife”).
Noun
- 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.
- Isikawa Takuboku, Romazi Nikki
Usage notes
- Used chiefly in written texts such as letters.
References
- 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
Korean
Hanja
妻 • (cheo) (hangeul 처, revised cheo, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏ)
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Vietnamese
Han character
妻 (thê, thế)
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