婿
Stroke order
Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Origin of the character
「壻」の偏を「女」に置き換えた異体字。「壻」については壻#字源の項目を参照。
Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.
Meaning
bridegroom, son-in-law
English glosses from KANJIDIC2.
Readings
- On (Sino-Japanese)
- セイHS
- Kun (native)
- むこJHS
- Other languages
- 拼音xu4
- 한글seo
- Hán-ViệtTế
- Hán-ViệtRể
Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.
Basics
- Strokes
- 12 strokes
- Radical
- 子(こ)
- JIS level
- Level 1
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Unicode
U+5A7F
Components
Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.
Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰女胥
Words using this kanji
- 婿むこ（むこ）娘の夫として家族の一員となる男性。husband, groom, (one's) son-in-law
- 婿選びむこえらびsearch for a husband for one's daughter
- 婿養子むこようし娘の婿と養子縁組すること。son-in-law taken (adopted) into family
- 婿入りむこいりbeing adopted into the family of one's bride
- 婿取りむことりadopting a son-in-law into one's family, marrying off one's daughter
- 婿入り婚むこいりこんmarriage in which a man is adopted into the bride's family, uxorilocal marriage
Words starting with this kanji, most common first.
Similar-looking kanji
Selected automatically by comparing composition (IDS). “Same composition” means the parts and their arrangement match.
Variants
Lookup codes
- SKIP
1-3-9- Four Corner
4742.7- Spahn–Hadamitzky
3e9.3- Heisig
- 422
- Nelson
- 1239