HSK 6 · Family

媳妇 xífù “daughter-in-law” in Chinese

Traditional 媳婦

What 媳妇 means

  1. daughter-in-law
  2. wife (informal)
  3. wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation

How to say 媳妇

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale媳xí2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale妇fù4th tone, falling

媳妇 in a sentence

  1. 你媳妇怎么样，汤姆？

    Nǐ xífù zěnmeyàng, Tāngmǔ?

    How’s your wife, Tom?

    Sentence #8511422 from Tatoeba

How 媳妇 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 媳 (xí) with each of its parts in a different colour
媳xídaughter-in-law
  • 女woman · nǚMeaning part
  • 息to end · xīSound part

女 hints at the meaning (woman); 息 (xī) hints at the sound. Compare it with xí.

The character 妇 (fù) with each of its parts in a different colour
妇fùwoman
  • 女woman · nǚ
  • 彐snout · jì

How to write 媳妇

媳 13 strokes · 妇 6 strokes

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媳妇 (xífù) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 媳妇 (xífù). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 媳妇

Words with 妇

妇女fùnǚ · woman夫妇fūfù · married couple

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FAQs

媳妇 (xífù) means “daughter-in-law” or “wife (informal)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it xífù: xí with a 2nd tone, then fù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 媳妇 is written 媳婦. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xifu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 媳妇 from the suggestions. Typing xifu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
媳妇 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.