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The character 娶, meaning to take a wife in marriage, derives from the older character 取, which originally conveyed the general action of capturing or taking. To specify this action within the context of matrimony, the semantic component 女, meaning woman, was added to 取, creating a compound that explicitly denotes the act of a man taking a woman as his spouse. Over time, the meaning of 娶 narrowed exclusively to this marital sense, reflecting the formalization of marriage as a social institution, while the more general term 取 retained its broader applications.
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昨天我娶了她。
他想娶一位老师。
弟弟准备明年娶妻。
娶到一个好妻子是幸福的。
如果我有钱，我就娶她。
他娶了那个他爱了很多年的女人。
在传统文化中，娶亲是重要的事情。
尽管家人反对，他还是决心要娶她为妻。