婚
(bound form) marriage; wedding; (bound form) to marry
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #722 U+5A5A
How 婚 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
女 (semantic, “woman”) + 昏 (phonetic, hūn)
How to remember it
marriage · Heisig RSH #1374
女 woman + 氏 family name + 日 day
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 昏
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 昏 (hūn) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 昏 sound component | hūn | dusk, nightfall, twilight, dark; to faint, to lose consciousness |
| 阍 | hūn | gatekeeper; gate, door |
Words containing 婚
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 婚前性行为 | hūn qián xìng xíng wéi | premarital sex |
| 非婚生子女 | fēi hūn shēng zǐ nǚ | an illegitimate child |
| 结婚生子 | jié hūn shēng zǐ | to get married and have kids; to start a family |
| 二婚头 | èr hūn tóu | remarried lady (contemptuous term); lady who marries for a second time |
| 婚外情 | hūn wài qíng | extramarital affair |
| 婚神星 | Hūn shén xīng | Juno, an asteroid |
| 事实婚 | shì shí hūn | common-law marriage; de facto marriage |
| 先有后婚 | xiān yǒu hòu hūn | to marry after getting pregnant |
| 非婚生 | fēi hūn shēng | born out of wedlock; illegitimate |
| 大婚 | dà hūn | to have a grand wedding; to get married in lavish style |
| 证婚人 | zhèng hūn rén | wedding witness |
| 金婚 | jīn hūn | golden wedding |
| 小别胜新婚 | xiǎo bié shèng xīn hūn | reunion after an absence is sweeter than being newlyweds (idiom); absence makes the heart … |
| 婚前财产公证 | hūn qián cái chǎn gōng zhèng | prenuptial agreement; dowry contract |
| 婚事 | hūn shì | wedding; marriage; CL:門|门[men2],樁|桩[zhuang1] |
| 婚车 | hūn chē | wedding car |
| 合婚 | hé hūn | casting a couple's fortune based on their bithdates (old) |
| 新婚 | xīn hūn | newly married |
| 成婚 | chéng hūn | to get married |
| 婚外 | hūn wài | extramarital |