妻
つま · tsuma · JLPT N4 · noun
wife
💍 妻 = 女 woman + a hand at her hairpin; tsuma: it's MA wife, TSU-MA
Etymology: the bottom is 女 (woman); the top shows a hand fixing a hairpin, the mark of a married woman. Sound hook: tsuma ends in ma, as in my wife. Use 妻 for your own wife; someone else's is 奥さん (okusan).