嫁人

jiàrén
verb #16,384

Meanings

  1. 1 to get married
  2. 2 to take a husband

Examples

HSK 2
Tā sānshí suì cái jiàrén.
She didn't get married until she was thirty.
HSK 7-9
Māma zǒng cuī tā kuài diǎn jiàrén.
Her mother keeps pressuring her to get married soon.

Tips

grammar
is only used for women marrying. Men use . The traditional saying is 男大当婚,女大当嫁 (when a man grows up he should marry, when a woman grows up she should wed).
register
嫁人 can carry traditional connotations of 'marrying into' the husband's family. In modern casual speech, 结婚 is gender-neutral and more common.

Stroke Order

jià
rén