交姻

Chinese

Etymology 1

		to deliver; to turn over; to make friends to deliver; to turn over; to make friends; to intersect (lines); to pay (money)	marriage connections
trad. (交姻)		交	姻
simp. ^#(交姻)		交	姻

Phono-semantic matching of Malay kahwin (“to marry”).

Verb

交姻

alternative form of 交寅 (“to marry”)

Etymology 2

		to deliver; to turn over; to make friends to deliver; to turn over; to make friends; to intersect (lines); to pay (money)	marriage connections
trad. (交姻)		交	姻
simp. ^#(交姻)		交	姻

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jiāo yīn

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄠㄧㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gaau¹ jan¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jiāo yīn
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄠㄧㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jiao yin
  - Wade–Giles: chiao¹ yin¹
  - Yale: jyāu yīn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiau in
  - Palladius: цзяо инь (czjao inʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵ in⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: gaau¹ jan¹
  - Yale: gāau yān
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gaau¹ jan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: gao¹ yen¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaːu̯⁵⁵ jɐn⁵⁵/

Verb

交姻

(American (–1980) Cantonese) to marry
彼國與鄰邦交姻，以固邊境。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
彼国与邻邦交姻，以固边境。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]
Bǐ guó yǔ línbāng jiāoyīn, yǐ gù biānjìng. [Pinyin]
That state formed a marriage alliance with the neighboring polity in order to strengthen its borders.

Synonyms

作對 / 作对 (zuòduì, “to pair off in marriage”)
匹偶 (pǐ'ǒu) (literary)
匹配 (pǐpèi)
娶 (of a man)
婚嫁 (hūnjià)
婚配 (hūnpèi)
嫁 (jià) (of a woman)
嫁娶 (jiàqǔ)
安家 (ānjiā) (figurative)
完婚 (wánhūn)
完成 (wánchéng) (literary)
成交 (chéngjiāo) (Shanghainese)
成婚 (chénghūn)
成家 (chéngjiā) (of a man)
成親 / 成亲 (chéngqīn)
桃夭 (táoyāo) (literary)
𤆬 (“to take a wife”) (Hokkien, Teochew, Leizhou Min)
𤆬人 (Hokkien)
𤆬新娘 (“to take a wife”) (Min Nan)
𤆬新婦 / 𤆬新妇 (“to take a wife”)
結合 / 结合 (jiéhé)
結婚 / 结婚
聯結 / 联结 (liánjié)

References

Lorraine Dong, Marlon K. Hom (1980), “Chinatown Chinese: The San Francisco Dialect”, in Amerasia‎^[1], page 23