Illustration: A woman welcomes a visiting friend into the living room of her Japanese home and gestures fondly toward her husband. He sits beside the low table in comfortable house clothes, trying to fold an enormous fitted sheet that has partly swallowed his arms.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

亭てい主しゅ

teishu

husband

An informal way to refer to one’s husband. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

うちの亭主ていしゅは甲斐性かいしょうがない。
My husband isn’t quite the provider he should be.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
亭主ていしゅが女房にょうぼうの尻しりにしかれるのも当然とうぜんだ。
No wonder he is a henpecked husband.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
あの家いえは女房にょうぼうが亭主ていしゅをしりに敷しいている。
She wears the trousers in that house.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 亭主

亭pavilion; restaurantOnテイ・チン
主lord; chiefOnシュ・ス・シュウKunぬし・おも・あるじ

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