婿

婿 (radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女弓人月 (VNOB), four-corner 4742₇, composition ⿰女胥)

• KangXi: page 266, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6470
• Dae Jaweon: page 533, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1069, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5A7F

婿

1. son-in-law
2. husband

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. groom
2. daughter's husband, son-in-law

• Go-on: さい (sai)
• Kan-on: せい (sei, Jōyō)
• Kun: むこ (muko, 婿, Jōyō)

• 女 (じょ)婿 (せい) (josei)
• 令 (れい)婿 (せい) (reisei)

• 壻, 聟

*/məko/ → *⟨muko₁⟩ → */mukʷo/*⟨mo₍₂₎ko₁⟩ → */məkʷo/ → /muko/

Not confirmed in Old Japanese documents, although presence of the cognate words suggests Proto-Japonic *mòkô (cognate with Okinawan むーく (muːku), Kunigami むふ (muhu), Miyako むく (muku) and the moko below). This is a result of the phonological change, that non-final */o/ in the nouns of Proto-Japonic became ⟨u⟩ in Central Old Japanese.

In regard to the derivation, there are some theories proposed, however many of them are associated with the verbs 向かふ (mukafu) → 向かう (mukau, “to go towards”) and 迎ふ (mukafu) → 迎える (mukaeru, “to receive”), both derived from 向く (muku, “to turn toward”), from Proto-Japonic *múk-. Theories to explain this inconsistency in the proto-forms has not been published yet.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) む​こ [múꜜkò] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [mɯ̟ᵝko̞]

婿 (hiragana むこ, rōmaji muko)

1. a husband who has entered his wife's house
2. a son-in-law

   Synonyms: 女婿 (josei), 娘婿 (musumemuko)

3. a groom, bridegroom (man who is about to get married)

   Synonyms: 新郎 (shinrō), 花婿 (hanamuko)

• (all senses): 嫁 (よめ) (yome)

• 婿 (むこ)養 (よう)子 (し) (muko yōshi)
• 入 (い)り婿 (むこ) (irimuko)
• 花 (はな)婿 (むこ) (hanamuko)
• 娘 (むすめ)婿 (むこ) (musumemuko)

*/moko/ → ⟨mo₍₁₎ko₁⟩ → */mʷokʷo/ → /moko/

From other Old Japanese dialects besides Central Old Japanese, with a conserved */o/ as ⟨o₁⟩, from Proto-Japonic *mòkô.

Attested as 毛古, 毛胡 (⟨mo₍₁₎ko₁⟩ → moko, interpreted as 仲間 (“fellow”) or 対手 (“opponent”) in later times) in the Kojiki (712 CE) and Nihon Shoki (720 CE), respectively.

婿 (hiragana もこ, rōmaji moko)

1. (dialectal, Tōhoku, Northern Kantō, Niigata, Nagano, Chūgoku, etc.) Same as むこ (muko) above
   • 898–901, Shinsen Jikyō

     聟 毛古、又加太支

     Groom: moko, also kataki ‎(“enemy”‎)

2. (etymology, archaic, obsolete) someone who confronts against someone else; a comrade, foe
   • 711–712, Kojiki (poem 50)

     知 (ち)波 (は)夜 (や)夫 (ぶ)流 (る)宇 (う)遲 (ぢ)能 (の)和 (わ)多 (た)理 (り)邇 (に)佐 (さ)袁 (を)斗 (と)理 (り)邇 (に)波 (は)夜 (や)祁 (け)牟 (む)比 (ひ)登 (と)斯 (し)和 (わ)賀 (が)毛 (も)古 (こ)邇 (に)許 (こ)牟 (む) [Man'yōgana]

     ちはやぶる宇 (う)治 (ぢ)の渡 (わた)りに棹 (さを)取 (と)りに速 (はや)けむ人 (ひと)しわがもこに来 (こ)む [Modern spelling]

     chihayaburu Uji no watari ni sao-tori ni hayakemu hito shi waga moko ni komu

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婿 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune–Reischauer sŏ)

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婿 (tế)

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