Definitions
(noun)
wife
(verb)
to marry off (a daughter)
Etymology
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).
About
The character "妻" originates from an early form that depicted a woman with a hand touching her hair, conveying the act of taking a wife. In its modern structure, it consists of the component "女" meaning woman, combined with an upper element that evolved from the graphical representation of a hand. The meaning of "妻" has consistently referred to a wife, though in classical Chinese it occasionally functioned as a verb meaning to give a woman in marriage or to take as a wife. Over time, the character's form underwent stylization, refining the pictorial elements into the fixed shape used in writing today.
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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。