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妻

JLPT N3 SL5 8 strokes Frequency: #691

Meanings

Wife, Spouse

Radicals

女

Decomposition

⿱⿻十彐女

Etymology

Ideographic: A woman 女 holding a broom 十 in her hand 彐

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 8

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

2 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

3 horizontal bottom-to-top

4 horizontal bottom-to-top

5 vertical top-right-to-bottom-left

6 curve bottom-right-to-top-left

7 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

8 horizontal bottom-to-top

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

サイ sai

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

つま tsuma

Words Using This Kanji

75 words total

Other (15 words)

beautiful wife

having a wife

young wife

wife cheated on by her husband

駐妻ちゅうつま

expat wife

シタ妻シタつま

wife who has had an affair

現地妻げんちづま

local woman treated as a spouse by an already-married foreigner

大妻女子大学おおつまじょしだいがく

Otsuma Women's University

大妻女子大学短期大学部おおつまじょしだいがくたんきだいがくぶ

Otsuma Women's University Junior College Division

uxoriousness

beloved wife

bad wife

polyandry

polygamy

lightning

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