婚

婚	U+5A5A, 婚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A5A

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order

Han character[edit]

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

get married
marriage; wedding

References[edit]

KangXi: 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[edit]

simp. and trad.		婚

Glyph origin[edit]

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, OC *hmɯːn): semantic 女 + phonetic 昏 (OC *hmɯːn).

Pronunciation[edit]

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hūn (hun¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fan¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): fûn

(Meixian, Guangdong): fun¹
Min Dong (BUC): huŏng
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): hun

(Teochew, Peng'im): hung¹
Wu (Wiktionary): hun (T1)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: hūn
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄣ
  - Wade–Giles: hun¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huen
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hun
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xwən⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: fan¹
  - Yale: fān
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: fen¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐn⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fûn
  - Hakka Romanization System: fun´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: fun¹
  - Sinological IPA: /fun²⁴/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: fun¹
  - Sinological IPA: /fun⁴⁴/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: huŏng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huoŋ⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hun
  - Tâi-lô: hun
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hwn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hun⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hun³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hun⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hun⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hun⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: hung¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hung
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huŋ³³/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: hun (T1)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɯə̯ɲ⁵³/

Middle Chinese: /huən/

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
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

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*m̥ˤu[n]/

(Zhengzhang): /*hmɯːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	婚
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hūn
Middle Chinese	‹ xwon ›
Old Chinese	/*m̥ˁu[n]/
English	marriage
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	婚
Reading #	1/1
No.	5530
Phonetic component	昏
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	昏
Old Chinese	/*hmɯːn/

Definitions[edit]

婚

to marry; to get married
wedding; marriage
^† relative by marriage; kin by marriage; in-law
- 汝克黜乃心，施實德于民，至于婚友，丕乃敢大言汝有積德。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  汝克黜乃心，施实德于民，至于婚友，丕乃敢大言汝有积德。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Book of Documents, circa 4^th – 3^rd century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Rǔ kè chù nǎi xīn, shī shídé yú mín, zhìyú hūnyǒu, pī nǎi gǎn dàyán rǔ yǒu jīdé. [Pinyin]
  If you can put away your (selfish) thoughts, and bestow real good upon the people, reaching (also) to your own relatives and friends, you may boldly venture to make your words great, and say that you have accumulated merit.
^† father of wife
^‡ family of wife

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 婚

不婚媽媽／不婚妈妈
不婚族
主婚
主婚人
亂婚／乱婚
二婚 (èrhūn)
二婚頭／二婚头 (èrhūntóu)
允婚
內婚／内婚
公證結婚／公证结婚
再婚 (zàihūn)
冥婚 (mínghūn)
初婚 (chūhūn)
判決離婚／判决离婚
前婚後嫁／前婚后嫁
劫婚
勘婚
合婚
單婚／单婚
天婚
女嫁男婚
妻姊妹婚
婚事 (hūnshì)
婚俗
婚假
婚友介紹／婚友介绍
婚友社
婚喪／婚丧 (hūnsāng)
婚喪喜慶／婚丧喜庆
婚外 (hūnwài)
婚外戀／婚外恋 (hūnwàiliàn)
婚姻 (hūnyīn)
婚姻介紹所／婚姻介绍所 (hūnyīn jièshàosuǒ)
婚姻失調／婚姻失调
婚姻懇談／婚姻恳谈
婚姻暴力
婚姻法 (hūnyīnfǎ)
婚姻自由
婚娶 (hūnqǔ)
婚嫁 (hūnjià)
婚宴 (hūnyàn)
婚對／婚对
婚戀／婚恋 (hūnliàn)
婚書／婚书
婚期 (hūnqī)
婚檢／婚检

婚生子女
婚禮／婚礼 (hūnlǐ)
婚約／婚约 (hūnyuē)
婚紗／婚纱 (hūnshā)
婚變／婚变 (hūnbiàn)
婚配 (hūnpèi)
婚閥／婚阀
婚齡／婚龄 (hūnlíng)
完婚 (wánhūn)
宴爾新婚／宴尔新婚
寶石婚／宝石婚
已婚 (yǐhūn)
布婚
幽婚
後婚兒／后婚儿 (hòuhūnr)
復婚／复婚 (fùhūn)
徵婚／征婚
悔婚 (huǐhūn)
成婚 (chénghūn)
指婚
指腹為婚／指腹为婚
搶婚／抢婚 (qiǎnghūn)
撞天婚
新婚 (xīnhūn)
新婚燕爾／新婚燕尔
早婚 (zǎohūn)
明婚正配
晚婚 (wǎnhūn)
木婚
未婚 (wèihūn)
未婚夫 (wèihūnfū)
未婚妻 (wèihūnqī)
未婚媽媽／未婚妈妈
棉婚
棉布婚
水晶婚
求婚 (qiúhūn)
燕爾新婚／燕尔新婚
珊瑚婚
珍珠婚
瓷婚
男婚女嫁
男婚女聘
白金婚
皮婚
盲婚啞嫁／盲婚哑嫁 (mánghūnyǎjià)

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

婚

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

marriage

Readings[edit]

Go-on: こん (kon, Jōyō)
Kan-on: こん (kon, Jōyō)
Kun: えんぐみ (engumi, 婚)

Compounds[edit]

婚姻(こんいん) (kon'in): marriage, matrimony
婚期(こんき) (konki)
婚約(こんやく) (kon'yaku)
婚礼(こんれい) (konrei)
結婚(けっこん) (kekkon): marriage
結婚式(けっこんしき) (kekkonshiki): wedding

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

get married
marriage, wedding

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

婚: Hán Nôm readings: hôn

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婚

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Definitions[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

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Readings[edit]

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