妻

wife

to marry off (a daughter)

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

female / woman / daughter

archaic variant of 汝[ru3]

Character component without intrinsic meaning

ex-wife / late wife

first wife

monogamy

married woman; wife (as a social role)

to repudiate one's wife

polygamy

lit. one husband one wife / monogamy

weekend spouse / relationship involving a sugar-daddy

(neologism c. 2009) wife of a gay man (the man may marry to conform with social expectations, and the woman often enters the marriage not knowing he is gay)

to be bereaved of one's wife

an ugly wife is a treasure at home (idiom)