婿

Meaning

婿 centers on a man who marries into a family: a bridegroom or son-in-law. Both meanings describe the same role from different perspectives—the man entering the marriage and his relationship to the bride's parents.

• 婿むこ
  N1

  husband; groom

• 花婿はなむこ
  N2

  bridegroom

• 婿養子むこようし

  son-in-law taken (adopted) into family

• 娘婿むすめむこ

  son-in-law

• 女婿じょせい

  son-in-law

• 乞婿こいむこ

  bridegroom who is loved by his bride

• 令婿れいせい

  your son-in-law

• 入り婿いりむこ

  man who takes his wife's family name and marries into her family; man who is adopted by his wife's family

• 妹婿いもうとむこ

  the husband of one's younger sister

• 姉婿あねむこ

  the husband of one's elder sister

• 娘一人に婿八人むすめひとりにむこはちにん

  being besieged by suitors; to be popular; eight suitors for one daughter

• 婿入りむこいり

  being adopted into the family of one's bride

• 婿入り婚むこいりこん

  marriage in which a man is adopted into the bride's family; uxorilocal marriage

• 婿取りむことり

  adopting a son-in-law into one's family; marrying off one's daughter

• 婿選びむこえらび

  search for a husband for one's daughter

• 愛婿あいせい

  one's favorite son-in-law; one's favourite son-in-law

• 招婿婚しょうせいこん

  marriage in which a man is adopted into the bride's family; matrilocal marriage

• 王婿おうせい

  prince consort

• 皇婿こうせい

  prince consort

• 相婿あいむこ

  brother-in-law

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