spouse

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

person

麗 sound component

  Sound component

  

beautiful

Evolution

儷 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
儷 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
儷 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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spouse, couple, pair; husband and wife

Most common words with 儷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

伉俪

husband and wife (literary)

husband and wife

伉俪情深

deep conjugal love

俪影

photo of a (married) couple

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4648th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Simplified

Unicode

U+5137

Shuowen

“儷,棽儷也。从人,麗聲。”


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