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妻 : Wife

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Components:
女

wife, spouse

On 'yomi:
サイ(sai)
Kun 'yomi:
つま(tsuma)
Nanori:
ずま(zuma) め(me)
Strokes:8
Radical:女 (38)
Usage Rating:691
JLPT:N3
old JLPT:2
Grade:5
Unicode:059bb
jis208:26-42
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妻 Usage examples

切妻(きりずま)
切り妻(きりずま)
gabled roof, building with a gabled roof, gabled roof construction
妻の座(つまのざ)status of wifehood
内縁の妻(ないえんのつま)de facto wife, common-law wife
幼妻(おさなづま)very young bride, bride (married woman) who is little more than a girl
肉食妻帯(にくじきさいたい)meat and matrimony (Buddhism), Buddhist priest eating meat dishes and being married
吾妻しい(あずましい)feeling good, feeling comfortable
一夫一妻(いっぷいっさい)monogamy
手妻人形(てづまにんぎょう)var. of puppet popular in the Edo period
悪妻は百年の不作(あくさいはひゃくねんのふさく)a bad wife spells the ruin of her husband, a bad wife means a hundred years of bad luck to her husband