媳妇 xífu▶ menantu perempuan

Stroke order

媳妇 is written in 19 strokes across 2 characters.

• 媳 — 13 strokes
• 妇 — 6 strokes

Senses

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

Related words

• 夫妇pasangan
• 妇女Wanita

媳妇 is pronounced xífu and means “menantu perempuan”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 媳妇 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.