婿

See also: 聟

婿 U+5A7F, 婿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A7F ← 婾 [U+5A7E] CJK Unified Ideographs 媀 → [U+5A80]

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Translingual

Han character

婿 (radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女弓人月 (VNOB), four-corner 4742₇, composition ⿰女胥)

1. son-in-law
2. husband

References

• KangXi: page 266, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6470
• Dae Jaweon: page 533, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1069, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5A7F

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		婿

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (疋) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
疋	*ŋraːʔ, *sŋra, *sŋraʔ
蝑	*sŋas, *sŋa
壻	*sŋeːs
婿	*sŋeːs
胥	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
稰	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
楈	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
諝	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
湑	*sŋa, *sŋaʔ
揟	*sŋa
醑	*sŋaʔ
糈	*sŋaʔ, *sŋraʔ
楚	*sŋ̊ʰraʔ, *sŋ̊ʰras
礎	*sŋ̊ʰraʔ
憷	*sŋ̊ʰraʔ
齼	*sŋ̊ʰraʔ
濋	*sŋ̊ʰraʔ
儊	*sŋ̊ʰras
綀	*sŋra
疎	*sŋra
疏	*sŋra, *sŋras
蔬	*sŋra
梳	*sŋra

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xù (xu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sai³
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): sè / sài

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sai³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: xù
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩˋ
    • Wade–Giles: hsü⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiw
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕy⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sai³
    • Yale: sai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sei³
    • IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sè
    • Tâi-lô: sè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sex
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /se⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /se²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sài
    • Tâi-lô: sài
    • Phofsit Daibuun: saix
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /saɪ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /saɪ¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /saɪ²¹/

Note:

• sè - literary;
• sài - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: sai³
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sài
  • IPA ^(key): /sai²¹³/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 婿
Mandarin	Beijing	/ɕy⁵¹/
	Harbin	/ɕy⁵³/
	Tianjin	/ɕy⁵³/
	Jinan	/ɕy²¹/
	Qingdao	/sy⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/sy³¹²/
	Xi'an	/ɕi⁰/
	Xining	/ɕy⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/ɕy¹³/
	Lanzhou	/ɕy¹³/
	Ürümqi	/ɕy⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/ɕi³⁵/
	Chengdu	/ɕi¹³/
	Guiyang	/ɕi²¹³/
	Kunming	/ɕi²¹²/
	Nanjing	/sy⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/sz̩ʷ⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ɕy⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/sei¹³/
	Hohhot	/ɕy⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɕi³⁵/ /ɕy³⁵/
	Suzhou	/si⁵¹³/
	Hangzhou	/ɕi⁴⁴⁵/
	Wenzhou	/sei⁴²/
Hui	Shexian	/ɕy³²⁴/
	Tunxi	/se⁴²/
Xiang	Changsha	/si²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/si⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/ɕy⁴⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/se⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/se⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/sɐi³³/
	Nanning	/ɬɐi³³/
	Hong Kong	/sɐi³³/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/se²¹/ /sai²¹/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/sɑi²¹²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/si²⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/sai²¹³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/si³⁵/

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• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*sŋeːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	婿
Reading #	1/1
No.	11766
Phonetic component	疋
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	細
Old Chinese	/*sŋeːs/
Notes	說文同壻

Definitions

婿

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Compounds

• 上門女婿／上门女婿 (shàngmén nǚxù)
• 乘龍佳婿／乘龙佳婿 (chénglóngjiāxù)
• 乘龍快婿／乘龙快婿
• 令婿
• 佳婿
• 八子七婿
• 卜婿
• 友婿
• 夫婿
• 女婿 (nǚxu)
• 妹婿 (mèixù)

• 姑婿
• 姪女婿／侄女婿 (zhínǚxu)
• 婭婿／娅婿
• 媦婿
• 子婿
• 孫女婿／孙女婿
• 小婿
• 得婿如龍／得婿如龙
• 快婿
• 招女婿 (zhāo nǚxù)
• 招門納婿／招门纳婿

• 東床嬌婿／东床娇婿
• 東床快婿／东床快婿
• 毛腳女婿／毛脚女婿
• 納婿／纳婿
• 翁婿
• 貴婿／贵婿
• 賢婿／贤婿
• 贅婿／赘婿 (zhuìxù)
• 迎婿日
• 金龜婿／金龟婿 (jīnguīxù)

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Japanese

Kanji

婿

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: さい (sai)
• Kan-on: せい (sei, Jōyō)
• Kun: むこ (muko, 婿, Jōyō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
婿
むこ Grade: S
kun’yomi

Noun

婿 (hiragana むこ, rōmaji muko)

1. groom, a man who is marrying

Derived terms

• 花婿 (はなむこ) (hanamuko)

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Korean

Hanja

婿 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune–Reischauer sŏ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

婿 (tế)

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