The kanji 婚 primarily conveys the meaning of "marriage" or "wedding". It refers to the act of getting married, the state of being married, and things related to the marriage ceremony and the married couple.

・On-yomi (音読み): コン (kon) ・Kun-yomi (訓読み): None, as the meaning is primarily conveyed through compound words.

⚫︎ 結婚 Translation: Marriage; Wedding ⚫︎ 婚約 Translation: Engagement ⚫︎ 新婚 Translation: Newly married

The kanji 婚 is a phono-semantic compound (形声文字). The left side is the radical 女(め・on'na), meaning "woman" or "female". The right side is 昏(こん・kon), which originally meant "twilight" or "dusk." The combination suggests the joining of a woman and a man in the twilight of life (or, by extension, in secret). Over time, it became associated with marriage ceremonies and the forming of a family.