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嫡

嫡

Translingual

Han character

嫡 (radical 38 女+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女卜金月 (VYCB), four-corner 40427, composition ⿰女啇)

  1. legal wife
  2. child of legal wife

References

  • KangXi: page 270, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6656
  • Dae Jaweon: page 537, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1078, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5AE1

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 嫡

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (帝) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
膪 *rtaːɡs, *rteːɡs
揥 *tʰeds, *teː
腣 *teː, *teːɡs
諦 *teːɡs
偙 *teːɡs
渧 *teːɡs
帝 *teːɡs
楴 *tʰeːɡs
啼 *deː
蹄 *deː
締 *deː, *deːɡs
崹 *deː
鶙 *deː
禘 *deːɡs
啻 *hljeɡs
嫡 *rteɡ, *teːɡ
摘 *rteːɡ, *tʰeːɡ
謫 *rteːɡ
讁 *rteːɡ
擿 *deɡ
蹢 *deɡ, *teːɡ
適 *tjeɡ, *hljeɡ, *teːɡ
啇 *teːɡ
滴 *teːɡ
鏑 *teːɡ
甋 *teːɡ
樀 *teːɡ, *deːɡ
敵 *deːɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 嫡 嫡
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 知 (9) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 陌 (113) 錫 (127)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) II IV
Fanqie 陟格切 都歷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʈˠæk̚/ /tek̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʈᵚak̚/ /tek̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȶak̚/ /tɛk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʈaɨjk̚/ /tɛjk̚/
Li
Rong		 /ȶɐk̚/ /tek̚/
Wang
Li		 /ȶɐk̚/ /tiek̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȶɐk̚/ /tiek̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhe di
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 嫡
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tek ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tˤek/
English son of principal wife

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 嫡 嫡
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 2323 2334
Phonetic
component		 帝 帝
Rime
group		 錫 錫
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 磔 的
Old
Chinese		 /*rteɡ/ /*teːɡ/

Definitions

嫡

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Compounds

  • 奪嫡／夺嫡
  • 嫡傳／嫡传
  • 嫡傳弟子／嫡传弟子
  • 嫡出
  • 嫡嗣
  • 嫡堂
  • 嫡堂姪
  • 嫡妻
  • 嫡嫡親親／嫡嫡亲亲
  • 嫡子 (dízǐ)
  • 嫡孫／嫡孙
  • 嫡孫承重／嫡孙承重
  • 嫡庶
  • 嫡支嫡派

Japanese

Kanji

嫡

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. legitimate wife

Readings

Korean

Hanja

嫡 • ‎(jeok) (hangeul 적, revised jeok, McCune-Reischauer chŏk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嫡 (đích)

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