(hūn) - marriage, wedding (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
hūnTraditional: 婚
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Translation
marriage, wedding (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the woman radical 女 reflects the traditional framing of marriage, and 昏 (hūn, dusk, the customary hour of the old wedding rite) supplies the sound, giving marriage.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 女 (woman radical) + 昏 (hūn, dusk, phonetic)
Stroke order
婚
Examples
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They got married last year.
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When are you getting married?
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Getting married is a big deal.
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Their marriage is very happy.
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She is preparing for her wedding.
婚 (hūn) means marriage. It is a bound morpheme that combines with verbs and modifiers, most often as 结婚 (jié hūn), to get married.
Appears in 4 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 婚.
Used in
Grammar articles
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