漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
婦: lady, woman
Also: wife, bride
JLPT N311 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
- 女woman(meaning)
- 帚(form)
女 carries the meaning · 帚 is drawn in
11 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
フfu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 婦人ふじんwoman, female
- 婦長ふちょうhead nurse
- 婦警ふけいpolicewoman
- 主婦しゅふhousewife
- 夫婦ふうふmarried couple
- 娼婦しょうふprostitute
- 新婦しんぷbride
- 看護婦かんごふnurse
- 掃除婦そうじふcleaning lady
Also read よめ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)女 woman (meaning) + 帚 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 婦 (rev. 92160841), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Woman (女) + a broom (帚). Historically referred to a "woman" with a "broom," representing a wife or a mature woman in charge of the household.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
帚
Also built on 帚
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side婦 lady · 女
vs帰 homecoming · 刂In ChineseSimplified 妇 · traditional, as in Japanese · fù
Japan keeps the traditional form 婦; mainland China simplifies it to 妇.
- Simplified
- 妇 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 婦 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin fù most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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