婿
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son-in-law; husband
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 女 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 婿
- Common rank
- #2,846
- Unicode
- U+5A7F
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
son-in-law · Heisig RSH #1676
女 woman + zoo + 月 month
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 婿
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 上门女婿 | live-in son-in-law; husband living with the wife's family | |
| 乘龙快婿 | ideal son-in-law | |
| 孙女婿 | son's daughter's husband; granddaughter's husband | |
| 小婿 | my son-in-law (humble); I (spoken to parents-in-law) | |
| 金龟婿 | wealthy son-in-law; wealthy husband | |
| 女婿 | daughter's husband; son-in-law | |
| 夫婿 | (literary) husband | |
| 外甥女婿 | sister's daughter's husband | |
| 侄女婿 | brother's daughter's husband; niece's husband | |
| 妹婿 | brother-in-law (younger sister's husband) | |
| 翁婿 | father-in-law (wife's father) and son-in-law | |
| 赘婿 | son-in-law living at wife's parent's house |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 胥 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 胥 sound part | all, together, mutually | |
| 糈 | pay, rations; sacrificial rice | |
| 醑 | to filter, to strain |