娶
qǔ · HSK 7
get married
👰 娶 = 取 take (also gives the qǔ sound) + 女 woman = take a wife
The 取 part both means take/get and supplies the qǔ reading; the 女 part means woman. Put them together and 娶 is a man taking a woman as his wife.
娶 — 取 (take) + 女 (woman)
A semantic-phonetic compound: 女 'woman' gives the meaning, while 取 'to take' supplies both the sound and a hint at the meaning. Originally written just as 取, the 女 was added later to specify the sense of taking a wife, i.e. to marry (a woman).