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配偶者
はいぐうしゃ
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spouse
Haigūsha is, by surface analysis, 配偶 (haigū) plus 者 (-sha).
Taken apart
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In a sentence
彼女は彼が貧しいときも彼を支えるすばらしい配偶者だった。
She was an excellent spouse who stood by him through poverty.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “By surface analysis, 配偶(はいぐう) (haigū) + 者(しゃ) (-sha). 配偶 derived from Chinese.”
Source: Wiktionary: 配偶者 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.