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女房
Reading にょうぼう
wife (esp. one's own wife)
- 1 wife (esp. one's own wife)
- 2 court lady, female court attache, woman who served at the imperial palace
- 3 woman (esp. as a love interest)
N2
JLPT
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strokes
#2851
frequency
Not started
Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.
Kanji used
例文 · examples
女房の手は店員さんより一回り小さい。
My wife's hands are slightly smaller than the shop assistant's.
sense 1 · wife (esp. one's own wife)
女房が突然泣き出した。
My wife burst into tears.
彼は女房の尻に敷かれている。
He is a hen-pecked husband.
言い換えれば、彼女は良き女房になった。
She became, in other words, a good wife.
我が家では女房が財布の紐を握っている。
My wife holds the purse strings in our family.