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婚

hūn

get married

Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 昏 represents the sound.

Components
女 meaning component

女  Meaning component

nǚ, rǔ

  

woman

昏 sound component

昏  Sound component

hūn

  

twilight

Evolution

婚 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
婚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
婚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
婚 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
婚 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

婚  

hūn

get married; marriage, wedding; to marry; marriage; wedding; to take a wife

Most common words with 婚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

结婚

to marry

婚礼

wedding

婚姻

matrimony

离婚

to divorce

婚

to marry

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m̥ˤu[n]

xwon

hūn

marriage


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 56.9438% of movies

362nd most common character in movies

942nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5A5A

Shuowen

“婚，婦家也。禮，娶婦以昏時。婦人陰也，故曰婚。从女，从昏，昏亦聲。，籀文婚。”


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