嫁人

jiàrén
verb #16,384

Meanings

  1. 1 (of a woman) to get married
  2. 2 to take a husband

Examples

Tā sānshí suì cái jiàrén.
She didn't get married until she was thirty.
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 (qǔ). The traditional saying is (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 (jiéhūn) is gender-neutral and more common.

Stroke Order

jià
rén