qǔ
marry
Depicts taking (取) a woman (女) for a man to marry. 取 also represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 娶
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to take a wife | ||
to marry | ||
to get oneself a wife | ||
marriage | ||
to take a wife |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]ʰoʔ-s | tshjuH | qù | take a wife |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 11.0203% of movies
1882nd most common character in movies
2494th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+5A36 |
Shuowen | “娶，取婦也。从女，从取，取亦聲。” |
Sources
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