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娶

qǔ

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 character level 6 Character

娶 (qǔ) means "to take a wife, to marry (of a man)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 娶 means

1. to take a wife
2. to marry (a woman)

Example sentences

• 他决定娶她。
  He decided to marry her.
• 我想娶玛莉。
  I mean to marry Mary.
• 汤姆终身未娶。
  Tāngmǔ zhōngshēn wèiqǔ.
  Tom remained a bachelor until his death.
• 他娶了一个空姐。
  Tā qǔ le yī gè kōng jiě.
  He married a stewardess.
• 他娶了一位空姐。
  Tā qǔ le yī wèi kōngjiě.
  He married a stewardess.
• 他想要娶我女儿。
  He wants to marry my daughter.

Words starting with 娶

• 娶妻qǔ qīto take a wife; to get married (man)
• 娶亲qǔ qīnto take a wife
• 娶媳妇qǔ xí fùto get oneself a wife; to take a daughter-in-law

Words containing 娶

• 迎娶yíng qǔ(of a groom) to fetch one's bride from her parents' home to escort her to the wedding…
• 嫁娶jià qǔmarriage
• 续娶xù qǔto remarry
• 聘娶婚pìn qǔ hūnformal betrothal (in which the boy's family sends presents to the girl's family)
• 明媒正娶míng méi zhèng qǔto be officially wed

Characters built on 取

These share the phonetic component 取 (qǔ), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 趣qùinteresting; to interest
• 聚jùto assemble; to gather (transitive or intransitive); (chemistry) poly-

Characters that look like 娶

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 票piàoticket; ballot; banknote
• 婴yīnginfant; baby
• 番fān(bound form) foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for processes or actions that…
• 萎wěito wither; to drop; to decline
• 祟suìevil spirit
• 莠yǒuSetaria viridis; vicious

Sounds the same

Read qǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 取to take; to get; to choose
• 曲tune; song
• 龋decayed teeth; dental caries
• 苣used in 苣荬菜; Taiwan pr. jù

Where 娶 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Marriage, Death & Negotiations (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read qǔ correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.