妻 (qī)
wife
How 妻 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 十 — ten
- Traditional
- 妻
- Simplified
- 妻 (unchanged)
妻 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- qī
- wife
- qì
- to marry off (a daughter)
Common words using 妻
- 夫妻 fūqī
- husband and wife; married couple
- 妻子 qīzǐ
- wife and children
- 前妻 qiánqī
- ex-wife
- 一妻制 yīqīzhì
- monogamy
- 休妻 xiūqī
- to repudiate one's wife
- 喪妻 sàngqī
- deceased wife
- 妻兒 qīér
- wife and child
- 妻妾 qīqiè
- wives and concubines (of a polygamous man); harem
- 妻室 qīshì
- wife
- 妻離子散 qīlízǐsàn
- a family wrenched apart (idiom)
- 娶妻 qǔqī
- to take a wife; to get married (man)
- 未婚妻 wèihūnqī
- fiancée
妻 in a sentence
他很疼愛他的妻子。
Tā hěn téng'ài tā de qīzi.
“He cherishes his wife very much.”
How common is 妻?
妻 is the 1,074th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 90.3% of all running text.
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