妻
妻 — cheo
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 아내 처
- Romanization
- cheo
- English
- wife
- Mandarin
- qī
- Japanese on'yomi
- サイ, セイ, シ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- つま
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 5
- Newspaper frequency
- #691 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 女 (38, 5 residual)
- Unicode
- U+59BB
How 妻 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 妻 as a ideographic compound involving 肀, 女.
Korean example words with 妻
- 노처老妻 Korean gloss: 늙은 아내
- 망처亡妻 Korean gloss: 죽은 아내
- 현처賢妻 Korean gloss: 어진 아내
- 처가妻家 Korean gloss: 아내의 본가
- 양처良妻 Korean gloss: 어질고 착한 아내
- 처숙妻叔 Korean gloss: 아내의 친정 삼촌
- 처상妻喪 Korean gloss: 아내의 상사(喪事)
- 처운妻運 Korean gloss: 부인을 잘 얻을 운수
- 처첩妻妾 Korean gloss: 아내와 첩을 아울러 이르는 말
- 부처夫妻 Korean gloss: 남편과 아내를 아울러 이르는 말
- 적처嫡妻 Korean gloss: 정식으로 예를 갖추어 맞은 아내
- 처자妻子 Korean gloss: 아내와 자식을 아울러 이르는 말
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 妻
- 妻つま wife; garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); trimmings
- 夫妻ふさい husband and wife; married couple
- 妻子さいし wife and children; wife
- 人妻ひとづま married woman; another's wife
- 稲妻いなずま lightning; flash of lightning; lightning bolt
- 愛妻あいさい beloved wife; cherishing one's wife
- 新妻にいづま new wife
- 良妻りょうさい good wife
- 後妻ごさい second wife
- 先妻せんさい former wife; late wife
- 妻帯さいたい having a wife; marrying (a woman); marriage
- 悪妻あくさい bad wife
Characters sharing the phonetic 妻
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “처” in Korean.
Other hanja read “처”
Other hanja with radical 女
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences