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妻

つま

wife

Mnemonic

The one with the hairpin who ran the house in the old drawing, and now simply your own. My brother's is Japanese, and a proper chum つま: つま.

Worth knowing

つま is your own wife when you talk about her. 奥さん おくさん is somebody else's, and what you call her to her face.

Built from

wife
A hand drawn over a figure with a hairpin in. The one who ran the house, in the old sense of it.

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