婚

音読おんよみ: コン

訓読くんよみ: none.

画数かくすう: 11

部首ぶしゅ: おんなへん(女)

Meaning

Marriage / Wedding

  • 結婚けっこん — marriage
  • 再婚さいこん — remarriage
  • 新婚しんこん — newly married
  • 未婚みこん — unmarried
  • 既婚きこん — married (status)
  • 婚約こんやく — engagement
  • 婚礼こんれい — wedding ceremony
  • 婚姻こんいん — matrimony; marriage (legal term)
  • 婚活こんかつ — spouse-hunting / looking for a partner
  • 婚期こんき — (ideal) age/time for marriage

uses the radical and the phonetic (dusk). Many old wedding rites took place toward evening, so together they picture the joining at dusk — hence “marriage.”

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