夫妻

fūqī · HSK 4

couple

👫 夫 = husband + 妻 = wife → married pair

夫 (fū) means husband and 妻 (qī) means wife; together 夫妻 names the married pair. 夫 depicts a man with a hairpin (adult male); 妻 shows a woman 女 with a hand 又 holding a broom, the classical wife radical.

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