婦

See also 妇

Translingual

simpl.		妇
trad.		婦

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 女 (“woman”) + 帚 (“broom”) – a woman with a broom.

Han character

婦 (radical 38 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女尸一月 (VSMB), four-corner 4742₇, composition ⿰女帚)

1. married woman
2. woman
3. wife

Descendants

• 妇

References

• KangXi: page 265, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6432
• Dae Jaweon: page 532, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1062, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5A66

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Cantonese

Hanzi

婦 (simplified 妇, Yale fu5)

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Japanese

Kanji

婦 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ふ (fu)
• Kun: よめ (yome), おんな (onna)

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Korean

Hanja

婦 (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune-Reischauer pu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

婦 (simplified 妇, pinyin fù (fu4), Wade-Giles fu⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

婦 (phụ, vợ)