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Pictograph of a hand grabbing a woman's hair to take her as a wife. In ancient China, women of marriageable age wore hairpins (compare with 每).
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The character 妻 denotes a wife. In its modern form, it is composed of the radical 女 (woman) beneath a complex upper element that historically depicted a hand seizing a woman's hair. This pictograph represented the practice of taking a bride: in ancient China, a woman's hair was pinned up with hairpins upon reaching marriageable age, signifying her new status (compare 每).
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他的妻子是医生。
我和妻子一起去旅行。
他的妻子在厨房里做饭。
夫妻两人都很高兴。
他每天下班后都陪伴妻子。
虽然工作很忙，但他总是抽时间陪妻子。
他的妻子不仅漂亮，而且非常聪明。
为了支持丈夫的事业，妻子放弃了自己的工作。
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