| Kanji | 妻 |
|---|---|
| Onyomi | サイ |
| Kunyomi | つま |
| Nanori | ずま, め |
| English | wife, spouse |
| Examples | 妻(つま): (1) wife (2) dear (formerly used by romantically linked men and women to refer to one another) (3) garnish (esp. one served with sashimi) (4) embellishment 夫妻(ふさい): man and wife; married couple |
| JLPT Level | 3 |
| Jouyou Grade | 5 |
| Frequency | 691 |
| Components | 彑: pig's head radical variant (no. 58) 女: woman; female |
| Number of Strokes | 8 |
| Kanji Radical | 女 |
| Radical Number | 38 |
| Radical Strokes | 3 |
| Radical Reading | おんな・おんなへん |
| Traditional Form | (none) |
| Classification | 象形 Pictographic |
| Keyword | wife |
| Koohii Story 1 | Ten rakes woman. your wife digs her fingernails into you and it feels like 10 rakes when she finds you ontop of another woman. |
| Koohii Story 2 | (I´m really not sexist, this just helps me remember the kanji): I make my WIFE do all the yard work, and as a really mean joke, I bought her TEN RAKES for her birthday this year. "Do the yardwork, WOMAN! You have TEN perfectly good RAKES to choose from!". |
| RTK Index (new) | 2035 |
Tags: jlpt.n3, grade5, kanjifreq501-750, kanji_people_role.status
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