奥さん

Japanese
Kanji in this term
奥
おく
Grade: S
on’yomi

Etymology

From 奥様 (おくさま) (okusama); equivalent to 奥 (おく) (oku) +‎ さん.

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) お​くさん [óꜜkùsàǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA(key): [o̞kɯ̟̊ᵝsã̠ɴ]

Noun

奥さん (hiragana おくさん, rōmaji okusan)

  1. (honorific) wife (referring to someone else's wife, not one's own)
  2. married woman

Synonyms

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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