夫妻

ふさい · fusai · JLPT N2 · noun

marriage

💍 夫 (husband) + 妻 (wife) = 夫妻 (man and wife): the husband plus the wife make the married couple

Each character names one spouse: 夫 is the husband and 妻 is the wife. Put together, they name the married pair. Pronounced fu-sai, which sounds like 'foo-sigh'.

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