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娶

娶

Translingual

Han character

娶 (radical 38 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 尸水女 (SEV), four-corner 17404, composition ⿱取女)

References

  • KangXi: page 263, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6365
  • Dae Jaweon: page 530, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1056, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5A36

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 娶

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (取) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
陬 *ʔsloː, *ʔsru, *ʔslo
棷 *ʔsloː, *sʰloːʔ, *sloːʔ, *ʔsru
掫 *ʔsloː, *ʔsruʔ, *ʔslo
緅 *ʔsloː, *ʔsru, *slos
趣 *sʰloːʔ, *sʰlos
取 *sʰloːʔ, *sʰloʔ
鯫 *zloː, *zloːʔ, *sʰlo
棸 *rlu, *rluʔ, *ʔsru
鄹 *ʔsru, *zloʔ, *ljoːnʔ
郰 *ʔsru
齱 *ʔsru, *sʰroːɡ
菆 *ʔsru, *sʰros, *zloːn
箃 *ʔsru
黀 *ʔsru
驟 *zrus
最 *zloːds
襊 *sʰoːds, *sʰoːd
蕞 *zoːds
嘬 *sʰroːds
諏 *ʔslo
娵 *ʔslo
娶 *sʰloʔ, *sʰlos, *slo
聚 *zloʔ, *zlos
埾 *zlos
藂 *zloːŋ
叢 *zloːŋ
繓 *ʔsoːd
撮 *ʔsoːd, *sʰoːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰloʔ, *sʰlos, *slo) : phonetic 取 ‎(OC *sʰloːʔ, *sʰloʔ) + semantic 女.

Etymology

From 取 (qǔ, “to take, to obtain, to collect, to fetch”). Compare the etymology of 嫁.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 娶
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕʰy²¹⁴/
Harbin /t͡ɕʰy²¹³/
Tianjin /t͡ɕʰy¹³/
Jinan /t͡ɕʰy⁵⁵/
Qingdao /t͡sʰy⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /t͡sʰy⁵³/
Xi'an /t͡ɕʰy⁵³/
Xining /t͡ɕʰy⁵³/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕʰy⁵³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕʰy⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕʰy⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡ɕʰy⁴²/
Chengdu /t͡ɕʰy⁵³/
/t͡ɕy¹³/
Guiyang /t͡ɕʰi⁴²/
Kunming /t͡ɕʰi⁵³/
Nanjing /t͡sʰy²¹²/
Hefei /t͡sʰz̩ʷ²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰəʔ²/
/t͡ɕʰy⁵³/ 新
Pingyao /t͡sʰʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕʰy⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕʰy³⁵/
Suzhou /t͡sʰi⁵¹/
Hangzhou /t͡sʰz̩ʷ⁵³/
Wenzhou /t͡sʰz̩³⁵/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰy³⁵/
Tunxi /t͡sʰi³¹/
Xiang Changsha /t͡si⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /t͡sʰi⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰy²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰi³¹/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰi³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰøy³⁵/
Nanning /t͡sʰy³⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰøy³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sʰu⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰøy²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰy²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰua³¹/ 訓讀
Haikou (Min Nan) /si²¹³/
Rime
Character 娶 娶
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 心 (16) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 虞 (24) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 相俞切 七句切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /sɨo/ /t͡sʰɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sio/ /t͡sʰioH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sio/ /t͡sʰioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /suə̆/ /t͡sʰuə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /sio/ /t͡sʰioH/
Wang
Li		 /sĭu/ /t͡sʰĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /si̯u/ /t͡sʰi̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xū qù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 娶
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tshjuH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]ʰoʔ-s/
English take a wife

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 娶 娶 娶
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 10655 10658 10663
Phonetic
component		 取 取 取
Rime
group		 侯 侯 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 娶 須
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰloʔ/ /*sʰlos/ /*slo/

Definitions

娶

  1. (of a man) to marry, to take a wife
    娶老婆  ―  qǔ lǎopó  ―  marry a woman

Compounds

  • 停妻再娶
  • 再娶
  • 另娶
  • 娶妻
  • 娶妻生子
  • 娶媳婦／娶媳妇
  • 娶親／娶亲 (qǔqīn)
  • 嫁娶 (jiàqǔ)
  • 子平畢娶／子平毕娶
  • 明媒正娶
  • 河伯娶婦／河伯娶妇
  • 牽絲娶婦／牵丝娶妇
  • 迎娶

Japanese

Kanji

娶

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

娶 • ‎(chwi) (hangeul 취, revised chwi, McCune-Reischauer ch'wi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

娶 (thú)

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