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Kanji Detail for 姻 - "marriage, matrimony, union"
姻
- Meaning
姻 means "marriage, matrimony, union."
Marriage - The union of two people.
Matrimony - The state of being married.
In-law - Related by marriage.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
matrimony; marry
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
relatives by marriage
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
marriage connections
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
relatives by marriage
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
The groom's family. | Wife's father is called 婚; groom's father is called 姻. Now the two characters are often confused. Hence getting married is also called 締姻. | Colloquially, distant relatives connected through circumstances are all called 姻.
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- Strokes
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