娶
qǔ HSK7

marry

Depicts taking (取) a woman (女) for a man to marry. 取 also represents the sound.

Components

取
取 SoundMeaning component
qǔ take
女
女 Meaning component
nǚ, nü woman

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttshjuH[ts]ʰoʔ-s take a wife

說文解字

《說文》：“娶，取婦也。从女，从取，取亦聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫中華語文知識庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)