(qī) - wife (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
qīTraditional: 妻
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Translation
wife (bound morpheme)
Word origin
An ideographic character showing a hand (又) holding a broom over the woman radical 女, depicting the woman of the household, hence a wife.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- 女 (woman) beneath a hand holding a broom, depicting the wife of the house
Stroke order
妻
Examples
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This is my wife.
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His wife is a teacher.
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My wife and I are going travelling.
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He apologised to his wife.
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His wife and children are all healthy.
妻 (qī) means wife and is bound; the standard word is 妻子 (qīzi), with the second syllable in the neutral tone.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 妻.
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