婿

noun #31,463

Meanings

  1. 1 son-in-law
  2. 2 husband (in compounds)

Examples

Tā shì wǒ de nǚxù.
He is my son-in-law.
Tā zhōngyú zhǎodào le rúyì lángxù.
She has finally found the husband of her dreams.

Tips

usage
婿 almost never stands alone. It lives in compounds: 女婿 (nǚxù, son-in-law / daughter's husband), 婿 (mèixù, younger sister's husband), 婿 (wēngxù, father-in-law and son-in-law), 婿 (lángxù, husband, literary). The radical signals "family / marriage" relations.
memory
Radical (woman) + phonetic (xū). The original sense is "man married into a woman's family."

Stroke Order

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