婚

婚 U+5A5A, 婚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A5A ← 婙 [U+5A59] CJK Unified Ideographs 婛 → [U+5A5B]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

婚 (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: 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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		婚

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hūn (hun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fan¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fûn
• Min Dong (BUC): huŏng
• Min Nan (POJ): hun

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• 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/
• 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/

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• 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

• 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

婚

1. to marry; to get married
2. wedding; marriage
3. ^† 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.

4. ^† father of wife
5. ^‡ family of wife

Compounds

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
• 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)

• 碧玉婚
• 糖婚
• 紅寶石婚／红宝石婚
• 紙婚／纸婚
• 結婚／结婚 (jiéhūn)
• 結婚戒指／结婚戒指 (jiéhūn jièzhi)
• 結婚證書／结婚证书 (jiéhūn zhèngshū)
• 絲婚／丝婚
• 綠寶石婚／绿宝石婚
• 網路婚禮／网路婚礼
• 羊布婚
• 翠玉婚
• 聯婚／联婚
• 腹婚妻
• 花邊婚／花边婚
• 複婚制／复婚制
• 訂婚／订婚 (dìnghūn)
• 訂婚柬帖／订婚柬帖
• 許婚／许婚 (xǔhūn)
• 試婚／试婚 (shìhūn)
• 論及婚嫁／论及婚嫁
• 證婚／证婚 (zhènghūn)
• 證婚人／证婚人
• 象牙婚
• 賣婚／卖婚
• 賴婚／赖婚
• 退婚 (tuìhūn)
• 退婚書／退婚书
• 逃婚 (táohūn)
• 通婚 (tōnghūn)
• 適婚年齡／适婚年龄
• 重婚 (chónghūn)
• 金剛鑽婚／金刚钻婚
• 金婚 (jīnhūn)
• 銀婚／银婚 (yínhūn)
• 銅婚／铜婚
• 鋼婚／钢婚
• 錫婚／锡婚
• 鐵婚／铁婚
• 鑽石婚／钻石婚
• 陶器婚
• 集團結婚／集团结婚
• 雜婚／杂婚 (záhūn)
• 離婚／离婚 (líhūn)
• 離婚率／离婚率
• 麻婚

Hyponyms

• 嫁 (jià)

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Japanese

Kanji

婚

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. marriage

Readings

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

Compounds

• 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

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. get married
2. marriage, wedding

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Vietnamese

Han character

婚: Hán Nôm readings: hôn

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