- wife (esp. one's own wife)
- court lady; female court attache; woman who served at the imperial palaceonly applies to にょうぼう and にゅうぼう
- woman (esp. as a love interest)only applies to にょうぼう and にゅうぼうarchaism
noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
Other forms
Wiktionary definitions (experimental)
Example sentences
18 results
The angry wife was on the warpath; she hit her husband with a broom for coming home late and drunk.
Many times, a hen-pecked husband doesn't know his problems until he talks to a happy bachelor.
Knowing very well that his wife wanted to go to a movie, the husband, who was a dog in the manger, cooked up a scheme whereby they had to stay at home waiting for a certain visitor who was not expected to come.
A man who asks his wife's permission before taking any action except breathing is a henpecked husband.
He and his wife both work and his salary is lower than hers, so no wonder he is a hen-pecked husband.
One day, I came back and my wife and one of my friends were inside the kotatsu.