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媳

xí

HSK 6 Character

What 媳 means

1. daughter-in-law

Example sentences

• 你媳妇怎么样，汤姆？
  Nǐ xífù zěnmeyàng, Tāngmǔ?
  How's your wife, Tom?
• 你媳妇怎幺样，汤姆？
  How's your wife, Tom?
• 婆婆和媳妇就像是暴风雨和冰雹。
  Pópo hé xífù jiù xiàng shì bàofēngyǔ hé bīngbáo.
  Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are a tempest and hailstorm.

Words starting with 媳

• 媳妇xí fùdaughter-in-law; wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation
• 媳妇儿xí fù rerhua form of 媳妇
• 媳妇熬成婆xí fù áo chéng pólit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law…

Words containing 媳

• 儿媳ér xídaughter-in-law
• 儿媳妇ér xí fùdaughter-in-law
• 婆媳pó xímother-in-law and daughter-in-law
• 弟媳dì xíyounger brother's wife; sister-in-law
• 小媳妇xiǎo xí fuyoung married woman; mistress; (fig.) punching bag
• 堂弟媳táng dì xíwife of younger male cousin via male line
• 侄媳妇zhí xí fùbrother's son's wife; nephew's wife
• 娶媳妇qǔ xí fùto get oneself a wife; to take a daughter-in-law
• 孙媳妇sūn xí fùson's son's wife; grandson's wife
• 童养媳tóng yǎng xíchild bride; girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law
• 表弟媳biǎo dì xíwife of younger male cousin via female line
• 儿媳妇儿ér xí fù rerhua form of 儿媳妇
• 童养媳妇tóng yǎng xí fùchild bride; girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law
• 外甥媳妇wài sheng xí fùsister's son's wife
• 丑媳妇早晚要见公婆chǒu xí fù zǎo wǎn yào jiàn gōng pó(lit.) the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (proverb)…
• 多年媳妇熬成婆duō nián xí fù áo chéng pósee 媳妇熬成婆

Characters built on 息

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

• 熄xīto extinguish; to put out (fire); to quench
• 螅xīused in 水螅
• 瘜xīa polypus

Characters that look like 媳

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

• 端duān(bound form) tip; end; extremity; (bound form) aspect; facet; (bound form) upright; proper
• 媒méimedium; intermediary; matchmaker
• 摇yáoto shake; to rock; to row
• 旗qíflag; variant of 旗
• 嫣yān(literary) lovely; sweet
• 缜zhěnfine and dense

Sounds the same

Read xí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 习(bound form) to practice; to study; habit
• 席woven mat; seat; banquet
• 袭(bound form) to raid; to attack; (bound form) to continue the pattern; to perpetuate…
• 褶(arch.) court dress
• 檄dispatch; order
• 觋wizard
• 槢a hard wood
• 霫Sui-Tang (premodern ethnic group)
• 隰low; marshy land
• 鎴strontium (obsolete, now 锶
• 𫘬(literary) horse with white forelegs
• 鳛loach; mudfish