婿
Meanings
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- 1.son-in-law
- 2.husband
- 1.variant of 婿[xù]
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- 1.son-in-law
- 2.husband
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sŋeːs): semantic 女 + phonetic 胥 (OC *sŋa, *sŋaʔ). Attested in Qin materials as ⿰士咠, which is of semantic 士 + phonetic 咠 (OC *ʔsib, *sʰib); the phonetic part is later conflated into 胥 (Li, 2022). Reminiscent of Proto-South-Bahnaric *saːj (“to marry; spouse”) (Schuessler, 2007). The Standard Mandarin pronunciation xù is due to rounding assimilation in the word 女婿 (nǚxu), which generalized to the character reading (Zhou, 1997).
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Related words
女婿 daughter's husband; son-in-law妹婿 brother-in-law (younger sister's husband)赘婿 son-in-law living at wife's parent's house夫婿 (literary) husband小婿 my son-in-law (humble)翁婿 father-in-law (wife's father) and son-in-law金龟婿 wealthy son-in-law孙女婿 son's daughter's husband侄女婿 brother's daughter's husband外甥女婿 sister's daughter's husband上门女婿 live-in son-in-law; husband living with the wife's family乘龙快婿 ideal son-in-law