Taxonomy of meanings for 娶:　　

  • 娶 xū (OC: sqlo MC: sio) 相俞切 平 廣韻：【荀卿子曰問娶之媒又七句切 】
  • 娶 qǔ (OC: skhos MC: tsʰio) 七句切 去 廣韻：【説文曰取婦也七句切二 】
    • MARRY
      • vtoNchoose (someone) as a wife (also for someone else! 為兒娶婦)
      • vt(oN)marry a contextually determinate person, get married to a woman (from a place) 取於
      • vt[oN]marry someone; get married
      • vt+prep+N{PLACE}take a bride from Npl
      • vt[oN].cmarry (several times)
      • vt+prep+Nget married to; take as a wife (a daughter/relative of)
      • vtoNpassive(as a woman) get chosen as a wife

    Additional information about 娶

    說文解字: 【娶】，取婦也。从女、取，取亦聲。 〔小徐本作「從女、取聲。」〕 【七句切】

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    • MARRY

      1. The general term for marriage as such is the relatively rare word hūn 婚 and the even rarer hūn yīn 婚 / 昏姻 which refer to marriage in general and not to marriage as seen from the perspective of one of the parties.

      2. The general term for a man marrying a woman is qǔ 娶 (ant. chū 出 "divorce").

      3. The general term for a woman marrying a man is jià 嫁 (No antonym, since women could not seek divorce.).

      4. Guī 歸 refers to a woman leaving her own clan and moving into ther husband's household.

      5. Qì 妻 refers to the convention of giving away a woman in marriage to a man.

      6. Shì 室 refers to the act of establishing a household through taking a wife.

      7. Shì 適 refers to a woman finding a husband (no doubt as a result of a parental decision, but this is not what is focussed on here).

      8. Gòu 媾 refers to double intermarriage between two clans such that a son or daughter of family X marries into family Y, and in addition another marriage is conducted so that another son or daughter from X marries another son or daughter of family Y.

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