妻 – wife, spouse

8 strokesTaught in grade 5#691 in newspaper frequencyN4 vocabulary

The kanji 妻 means wife, spouse. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is サイ (sai); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is つま (tsuma). It is written with 8 strokes, under radical 女 (no. 38).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	サイ	sai
Kun’yomi	つま	tsuma

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 女 (Kangxi radical 38). Components: ｜・ヨ・一・女.

Words using 妻

妻つまwife夫妻ふさいhusband and wife

Example sentences

私は妻を見舞いに病院に行った。

I went to the hospital to see my wife.

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ジョーンズ夫妻は娘を愛している。

The Joneses love their daughter.

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Kanji with the same radical

女委始好姿婦婚妥威妙娘嫌妊妹姉妨

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.