夫婦
See also: 夫妇
Chinese edit
husband; man | woman | ||
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trad. (夫婦) | 夫 | 婦 | |
simp. (夫妇) | 夫 | 妇 |
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
夫婦
- (collective) husband and wife; married couple (Classifier: 對/对 m)
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Japanese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Kanji in this term | |
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夫 | 婦 |
ふう Grade: 4 |
ふ Grade: 5 |
kan’yōon |
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- husband and wife, married couple, spouses, couple, pair
- Synonym: 夫妻 (fusai)
- その夫婦は幸福な生活を送った。
- Sono fūfu wa kōfuku na seikatsu o okutta.
- The couple led a happy life.
Usage notes edit
Kanji that are used in this term mean husband and wife. In referring to same-sex married couple, it is occasionally written in hiragana ふうふ.
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
- 夫婦の道 (fūfu no machi)
- 夫婦の和 (fūfu no wa)
- 夫婦円満 (fūfuenman)
- 夫婦間 (fūfukan)
- 夫婦関係 (fūfukankei)
- 夫婦喧嘩 (fūfugenka)
- 夫婦生活 (fūfuseikatsu)
- 夫婦共稼ぎ (fūfutomokasegi)
- 夫婦仲 (fūfunaka)
- 夫婦別れ (fūfuwakare)
- 夫婦別姓 (fūfūbessei)
- 夫婦約束 (fūfuyakusoku)
- 夫婦養子 (fūfuyōshi)
- 夫婦連れ (fūfuzure)
- 仮面夫婦 (kamenfūfu)
- 熟年夫婦 (jukunenfūfu)
- 蚤の夫婦 (nomi no fūfu)
- 老夫婦 (rōfūfu)
- 若夫婦 (wakafūfu)
Idioms edit
Idioms
- 鴛鴦り夫婦 (oshidori fūfu): literally "couple of ducks", loving couple, couple of lovebirds, happily married couple
- 夫婦気取り (fūfu kidori): literally "assume airs of a married couple", behaving as if they were a married couple
- 夫婦の縁を結ぶ (fūfu no en o musubu): literally "tie the bonds of husband and wife", get married
- 夫婦の仲を裂く (fūfu no naka o saku): literally "split the relationship of husband and wife", bring about marital separation
Etymology 2 edit
Kanji in this term | |
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夫 | 婦 |
Grade: 4 | Grade: 5 |
irregular |
Alternative spellings |
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妻夫 女夫 |
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
Etymology 3 edit
Kanji in this term | |
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夫 | 婦 |
Grade: 4 | Grade: 5 |
irregular |
Alternative spellings |
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妻夫 女夫 |
Sound change from めおと.
Pronunciation edit
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Etymology 4 edit
Kanji in this term | |
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夫 | 婦 |
Grade: 4 | Grade: 5 |
irregular |
For pronunciation and definitions of 夫婦 – see the following entry. | ||
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(This term, 夫婦, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) |
References edit
Korean edit
Hanja in this term | |
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夫 | 婦 |
Noun edit
Vietnamese edit
chữ Hán Nôm in this term | |
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夫 | 婦 |
Noun edit
夫婦