聟

See also: 婿

聟 U+805F, 聟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-805F ← 聞 [U+805E] CJK Unified Ideographs 聠 → [U+8060]

Translingual

Han character

聟 (Kangxi radical 128, 耳+8, 14 strokes, Cangjie input 人口尸十 (ORSJ) or 難人口尸十 (XORSJ), composition ⿱知耳)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 968, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29106
• Dae Jaweon: page 1418, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2791, character 7
• Unihan data for U+805F

Chinese

Glyph origin

From the composition of semantic 夫 + phonetic 咠 (OC *ʔsib, *sʰib), with 夫 geometrically evolved into 矢 (Zhen and Cao, 2025).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 聟 – see 婿 (“son-in-law; husband”). (This character is a variant form of 婿).

References

• Zhen, Dacheng (真大成); Cao, Yimeng (曹伊梦) (2025), “两次竞争:{婿}的用字史考察”, in 中国语文, number 5, pages 607–20.

Japanese

Kanji

聟

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. alternative form of 婿

Readings

• Go-on: さい (sai)
• Kan-on: せい (sei)
• Kun: むこ (muko, 聟)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
聟
むこ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 聟 – see the following entry.

【婿むこ】S [noun] a husband who has entered his wife's house: [noun] a son-in-law [noun] a groom, bridegroom (man who is about to get married) Alternative spelling 壻 【婿もこ】S [noun] (dialectal, Tōhoku, Northern Kantō, Niigata, Nagano, Chūgoku, etc.) nonstandard form of むこ (muko, “son-in-law; groom”)

(This term, 聟, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)