女婿

Chinese

female; woman; daughter husband; son-in-law
trad. (女婿) 女 婿
simp. #(女婿) 女 婿
alternative forms 女壻

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 女 婿
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial (聲) 娘 (12) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 魚 (22) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III IV
Fanqie 尼吕切 蘇計切
Baxter nrjoX sejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɳɨʌX/ /seiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɳiɔX/ /seiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/niɔX/ /sɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɳɨə̆X/ /sɛjH/
Li
Rong
/niɔX/ /seiH/
Wang
Li
/nĭoX/ /sieiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ni̯woX/ /sieiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
nǚ xì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
neoi5 sai3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 女 婿
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
nǚ xù
Middle
Chinese
‹ nrjoX › ‹ sejH ›
Old
Chinese
/*nraʔ/ /*[s]ˁ[i][j]-s/
English female son-in-law

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 女 婿
Reading # 1/2 1/1
No. 9616 11766
Phonetic
component
女 疋
Rime
group
魚 支
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
細
Old
Chinese
/*naʔ/ /*sŋeːs/
Notes 說文同壻

Noun

女婿

  1. son-in-law (used by the wife's family)
  2. (regional, colloquial) husband

Synonyms

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (女婿):
  • → Japanese: 女婿(じょせい) (josei); 女婿(にょせい) (nyosei)
  • → Korean: 여서(女壻) (yeoseo)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
女 婿
じょ
Grade: 1
せい
Grade: S
kan’on
Alternative spelling
女壻

/dʲo sei/ → /d͡ʑosei/ → /d͡ʑoseː/

First attested in the mid-Meiji period.[1]

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 女婿 (MC nrjoX sejH), utilizing the 漢音 (kan'on, literally “Han sound”) reading for both kanji.

Noun

女(じょ)婿(せい) • (josei) ←ぢよせい (dyosei)?

  1. a son-in-law (husband of one's daughter)
    Synonym: 娘婿 (musumemuko)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
女 婿
にょ
Grade: 1
せい
Grade: S
goon kan’on
Alternative spelling
女壻

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 女婿 (MC nrjoX sejH), utilizing the uncommon 呉音 (goon, literally “Wu sound”) reading nyo for 女, and the 漢音 (kan'on, literally “Han sound”) reading sei for 婿.

Noun

女(にょ)婿(せい) • (nyosei) 

  1. (rare) a son-in-law (husband of one's daughter)

References

  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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