媳
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daughter-in-law
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 女 +10
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 媳
- Common rank
- #2,374
- Unicode
- U+5AB3
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 媳
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 儿媳妇儿 | erhua form of 兒媳婦|儿媳妇[er2 xi2 fu4] | |
| 丑媳妇早晚要见公婆 | (lit.) the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (proverb); (f… | |
| 多年媳妇熬成婆 | see 媳婦熬成婆|媳妇熬成婆[xi2 fu4 ao4 cheng2 po2] | |
| 儿媳妇 | daughter-in-law | |
| 媳妇儿 | erhua form of 媳婦|媳妇[xi2 fu4] | |
| 媳妇儿 | erhua form of 媳婦|媳妇[xi2 fu5] | |
| 小媳妇 | young married woman; mistress; (fig.) punching bag; (old) child bride | |
| 儿媳 | daughter-in-law | |
| 童养媳妇 | child bride; girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law | |
| 表弟媳 | wife of younger male cousin via female line | |
| 童养媳 | child bride; girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law | |
| 堂弟媳 | wife of younger male cousin via male line | |
| 孙媳妇 | son's son's wife; grandson's wife | |
| 媳妇熬成婆 | lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (id… | |
| 媳妇 | daughter-in-law; wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation | |
| 媳妇 | (dialect) wife; (dialect) young married woman | |
| 弟媳 | younger brother's wife; sister-in-law | |
| 婆媳 | mother-in-law and daughter-in-law | |
| 外甥媳妇 | sister's son's wife | |
| 侄媳妇 | brother's son's wife; nephew's wife |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 息 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 息 sound part | to end, to cease, to put a stop to; pause, breath, rest; news | |
| 螅 | intestinal worm | |
| 瘜 | polypus |