女婿
Chinese edit
female; woman; daughter | husband; son-in-law | ||
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trad. (女婿) | 女 | 婿 | |
simp. #(女婿) | 女 | 婿 | |
alternative forms | 女壻 |
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
女婿
- son-in-law (used by the wife's family)
- (regional, colloquial) husband
Synonyms edit
Dialectal synonyms of 女婿 (“son-in-law”) [map]
Coordinate terms edit
- 兒媳婦/儿媳妇 (érxífù, “daughter-in-law”)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Japanese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Kanji in this term | |
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女 | 婿 |
じょ Grade: 1 |
せい Grade: S |
kan’on |
Alternative spelling |
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女壻 |
/dʲo sei/ → /d͡ʑosei/ → /d͡ʑoseː/
First attested in the mid-Meiji period.[1]
Ultimately from Middle Chinese 女婿 (MC nrjoX sejH), utilizing the 漢音 (kan'on, literally “Han sound”) reading for both kanji.
Noun edit
- a son-in-law (husband of one's daughter)
- Synonym: 娘婿 (musumemuko)
Etymology 2 edit
Kanji in this term | |
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女 | 婿 |
にょ Grade: 1 |
せい Grade: S |
goon | kan’on |
Alternative spelling |
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女壻 |
Ultimately from Middle Chinese 女婿 (MC nrjoX sejH), utilizing the uncommon 呉音 (goon, literally “Wu sound”) reading nyo for 女, and the 漢音 (kan'on, literally “Han sound”) reading sei for 婿.
Noun edit
- (rare) a son-in-law (husband of one's daughter)
References edit
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN