婚

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婚 U+5A5A, 婚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A5A
← 婙
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 婛 →

Translingual

Stroke order
11 strokes

Han character

婚 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女竹心日 (VHPA), four-corner 42464, composition ⿰女昏)

  1. get married
  2. marriage; wedding

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 264, character 34
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6418
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1060, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+5A5A

Chinese

trad. 婚
simp. # 婚
alternative forms
 
昏
𡝪
㛰
𡕽
𡖀
昏
𡝪
㛰
𡕽
𡖀
𤔿

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (昏) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鍲 *mrɯn
抿 *mrɯn, *mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ
緡 *mrɯn
捪 *mrɯnʔ
湣 *mrɯnʔ
昏 *hmɯːn
婚 *hmɯːn
閽 *hmɯːn
惛 *hmɯːn, *hmɯːnʔ, *hmɯːns
棔 *hmɯːn
殙 *hmɯːn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hmɯːn) : semantic 女 + phonetic 昏 (OC *hmɯːn).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 婚
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 魂 (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 呼昆切
Baxter xwon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/huən/
Pan
Wuyun 		/huon/
Shao
Rongfen 		/xuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/hwən/
Li
Rong 		/xuən/
Wang
Li 		/xuən/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/xuən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		hūn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fan1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 婚
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		hūn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ xwon ›
Old
Chinese 		/*m̥ˁu/
English marriage

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

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 婚
Reading # 1/1
No. 5530
Phonetic
component 		昏
Rime
group 		文
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		昏
Old
Chinese 		/*hmɯːn/

Definitions

婚

  1. to marry; to get married
  2. wedding; marriage
  3. † relative by marriage; kin by marriage; in-law
  4. † father of wife
  5. ‡ family of wife

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

婚

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. marriage

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

婚 • (hon) (hangeul 혼, revised hon, McCune–Reischauer hon)

  1. get married
  2. marriage, wedding

Vietnamese

Han character

婚: Hán Nôm readings: hôn

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