妻
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(bound form) wife
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 女 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 妻
- Common rank
- #1,463
- Unicode
- U+59BB
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 妻
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一夫一妻 | monogamy | |
| 一夫多妻 | polygyny | |
| 老夫老妻 | long-married couple | |
| 夫妻反目 | man and wife fall out (idiom, from Book of Changes); marital strife | |
| 一妻制 | monogyny | |
| 多妻制 | polygyny | |
| 露水夫妻 | a couple in a short-lived, improper relationship | |
| 丑妻近地家中宝 | an ugly wife is a treasure at home (idiom) | |
| 少年夫妻老来伴 | husband and wife in youth, companions in old age | |
| 妻离子散 | a family wrenched apart (idiom) | |
| 夫妻相 | similarity in features of an old couple; common facial traits that show predestination to … | |
| 老夫少妻 | older husband and much younger wife | |
| 半糖夫妻 | weekend spouse; relationship involving a sugar-daddy | |
| 夫妻脸 | see 夫妻相[fu1 qi1 xiang4] | |
| 妻子 | wife and children | |
| 妻子 | wife | |
| 人妻 | married woman; wife (as a social role) | |
| 妻儿 | wife and child | |
| 妻小 | wife and children; (old) wife | |
| 发妻 | first wife |
Sound family
These characters use 妻 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 妻 sound part | wife | |
| 凄 | bitter cold, miserable, dreary | |
| 萋 | luxuriant foliage |