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妻 kanji
wife, spouse
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
サイ
Kun readings
つま
Words with 妻
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —愛妻弁当lunchbox made with loving care by one's wife
- —肉食妻帯meat and matrimony (Buddhism); Buddhist priest eating meat dishes and being married
- —妻子眷属one's wife, children, and other relations; one's whole family
- —一夫一妻monogamy
- —一夫多妻制polygyny
- —妻子を携えるto be accompanied by one's family
- —悪妻は百年の不作a bad wife spells the ruin of her husband; a bad wife means a hundred years of bad luck to her husband
- —一盗二婢三妾四妓五妻(the most thrilling relationships for a man are) another man's wife, a maidservant, a mistress, a prostitute, and finally his own wife
- —妻君(one's) wife; wife (of a peer or subordinate)
- —衒妻wife; woman; prostitute; streetwalker
- —妻子眷族one's wife, children, and other relations; one's whole family