婿 — kanji meaning “bridegroom”
婿
bridegroom, son-in-law
- Meanings
- bridegroom, son-in-law
- On'yomi
- セイ (sei)
- Kun'yomi
- むこ
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #2099 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 38
- Chinese reading
- xù — Chinese character page
Words with 婿
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 花婿 | はなむこ hanamuko | bridegroom |
| 女婿 | じょせい josei | son-in-law; (one's) daughter's husband |
| 婿養子 | むこようし mukoyoushi | son-in-law taken (adopted) into family |
| 娘婿 | むすめむこ musumemuko | son-in-law |
| 婿入り | むこいり mukoiri | being adopted into the family of one's bride |
| 婿取り | むことり mukotori | adopting a son-in-law into one's family; marrying off one's daughter |
| 乞婿 | こいむこ koimuko | bridegroom who is loved by his bride |
| 婿選び | むこえらび mukoerabi | search for a husband for one's daughter |
| 令婿 | れいせい reisei | your son-in-law |
| 入り婿 | いりむこ irimuko | 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 imoutomuko | the husband of one's younger sister |
| 姉婿 | あねむこ anemuko | the husband of one's elder sister |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.