Keyword
husband
Info
FrequencyTop 100-200
Type
Kyōiku (4th grade) 
?
KankenLevel 7
Heisig901
Readings
(83%)
(5%)
ふう
(3%)
Composed of
two
person
Mnemonic

A husband was traditionally regarded as the head of at least a two person family (the husband and his wife).

Used in kanji (31 in total)
me (boyish)
permanent loss
difficult
replace
Used in vocabulary (177 in total)
safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good
husband
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)
wife; Mrs; (arch.) wife of a nobleman (aristocrat, etc.); (arch.) consort of the emperor
devising (a way); contriving; device; design; dedication to spiritual improvement (esp. through Zen meditation)
healthy; robust; strong; solid; durable
husband and wife; married couple
high-ranking noh actor; head of a school of noh performance; high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period); jōruri narrator; manzai narrator; female role actor in kabuki; low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine
(male) farmer; peasant; farmhand
old couple; elderly couple
sailor; seaman
laborer (labourer); construction worker; coolie
good-looking man; fine figure of a man
conjugal relations; conjugal affection
great man; great god; hero; big man
marital quarrel; argument between husband and wife
high steward; grand master
ingenuity; inventiveness; creative originality
ordinary person; unenlightened person
profiting while others fight
to exercise one's ingenuity; to come up with an ingenious plan
ex-husband; former husband
househusband; stay-at-home dad
rickshaw puller; rickshaw driver; rickshaw man
(another's) husband
fisherman
within a marriage; between husband and wife; conjugal
lover (male)
gidayū (type of reciting used in the puppet theater)
contrivance; bit of fiddling; little ingenuity; bit more (e.g. food)
marital quarrel; argument between husband and wife
(humble) man; coarse man; rustic
Mrs; Lady; Madam; your wife
loving couple; couple of lovebirds; happily married couple (who are always together)
warrior; samurai
matrimonial happiness; happy marriage
my spouse (esp. used to refer to one's wife); my wife; my husband
couple who only go through the motions of being husband and wife
full-time househusband; stay-at-home dad
being a match for thousands; being a mighty warrior (combatant)
middle-aged couple; middle-aged husband and wife
male; manly; brave; larger (of the two); greater; (arch.) man
woodcutter; lumberjack; logger
former husband; late husband
deceased husband; late husband
devising (a way); contriving; device; design; dedication to spiritual improvement (esp. through Zen meditation)
marital quarrel; argument between husband and wife
old man; elderly man
slave labour; slave labor; compulsory service; forced labour; forced labor; exacted service
fireman; stoker
manager (theatrical company)
engagement; betrothal; marriage contract
teacher; wise man; Confucius; the person concerned; you
de facto husband; common-law husband
to treat one's husband with due respect
Chinese scholar-bureaucrat; Chinese scholar-official
married couple with similar tastes or dispositions; like husband, like wife
rickshaw puller; rickshaw driver; rickshaw man
reassuring; stout-hearted; firm; courageous
polyandry
use of separate surnames by a married couple
railway employee (porter)
divorce; separation
adulterer; paramour
former husband; late husband
(physically) abusive husband; wife beater
adulterer and adulteress; adulterous couple
a married woman's paramour; lover
husband and wife travelling together (traveling)
hero; manly person; warrior
military porter
one should not get involved in a marital quarrel
great man; fine figure of a man
lover (of a married woman)
gidayū ballad drama (narrative accompanied by a shamisen used in the bunraku puppet theater)
that; he; she; that person
coward; timid man
chimney sweeper (cleaner)
widower; divorced man not remarried
lamplighter; town employee who lit oil or gas streetlights
foolish man; husband
marrying into the wife's family
(arch.) my dear; (arch.) dear; garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); embellishment
labourer; laborer; workman
a wife should do her husband's bidding
foremast hand; common sailor
laborer; labourer
having a husband; being married
many people
high-ranking noh actor; head of a school of noh performance; high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period); jōruri narrator; manzai narrator; female role actor in kabuki; low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine
dual income; husband and wife both working
behaving (posing) as if they were a married couple
adopting a married couple; married couple adopted into the family
male god; male deity
each; respectively
coarse men and women
street cleaner; garbage man
couple in which the wife is bigger than the husband
manager of itinerant entertainers (Edo period)
pimp; brothel tout
choosing a husband
male kitchen worker; cook
bamboo wife; Dutch wife
(system of) optional separate surnames for married couples
each; respectively
widower
high-ranking noh actor; head of a noh school
loving couple; couple of lovebirds; happily married couple (who are always together)
behaving (posing) as if they were a married couple
one's husband
one cannot shake the will of even the lowliest man; a person's will should be respected; even a menial deserves his convictions
male cook
husband and wife tomb
adulterer; paramour
valiant man
male pregnancy; mpreg; father-to-be; partner of pregnant woman
each; respectively
to each his own; people differ; different people (have different likes)
one should not get involved in a marital quarrel
pimp; procurer; someone who makes their living selling women into prostitution
manly poetic style (e.g. in the Man'yōshū)
manly poetic style (e.g. in the Man'yōshū)
former husband
husband's marital rights
farmer's syndrome; peasant syndrome
second husband
conjugal harmony; concord between husband and wife
clothing patterned using squirrel's foot fern
clothing patterned using squirrel's foot fern
you (referring to one's spouse or partner); dear
conjugal property; joint ownership property of husband and wife
Ukyō no Daibu (title under the ritsuryo system); high steward
married couple's insurance (i.e. life-insurance policy covering husband and wife)
common-law couple; couple in an illicit union
common-law couple; couple in an illicit union
marital rape; spousal rape
konbu as a betrothal gift (representing fertility and having healthy children)
fourspine sculpin (species of fish, Cottus kazika)
Examples (200 in total)
"Are you OK?" "I'm fine!"
"Are you all right?" "Yeah, I'm fine."
"Do you think she's okay?" "I don't know."