ようし
Meanings
Noun
1. 養子縁組によって子となった人。
Pitch accent
うし
Used in vocabulary (9 in total)
son-in-law taken (adopted) into family
deathbed adoption of a successor (to prevent extinction of the family line); person adopted by someone on his deathbed
① 血縁関係にない者同士を法律上親子として扱う制度。
Examples (5 in total)
My wife wanted to adopt a child.
We adopted a child.
He adopted the orphan.