嫡

嫡

嫡 U+5AE1, 嫡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AE1 ← 嫠 [U+5AE0] CJK Unified Ideographs 嫢 → [U+5AE2]

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		嫡
simp. #		嫡
alternative forms		適／适

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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dí (di²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dik¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dí
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dí
    • Wade–Giles: ti²
    • Yale: dí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dyi
    • Palladius: ди (di)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dik¹
    • Yale: dīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: dig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɪk̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʈˠæk̚/, /tek̚/

Rime
Character	嫡	嫡
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	知 (9)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	庚 (113)	青 (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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zak1	dik1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tˤek/

  (Zhengzhang): /*rteɡ/, /*teːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	嫡
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dí
Middle Chinese	‹ tek ›
Old Chinese	/*tˁek/
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

1. primary wife; legal wife

   Antonym: 庶 (shù)

   1. of or by the legal wife
2. Short for 嫡子 (dízǐ, “son of one's legal wife”).
3. of lineal descent; closely related
4. orthodox; authentic

Compounds

嫡出 嫡嗣 嫡堂 嫡妻 (díqī) 嫡子 (dízǐ) 嫡庶 嫡支嫡派

嫡母 (dímǔ) 嫡派 (dípài) 嫡系 (díxì) 奪嫡／夺嫡 嫡傳／嫡传 嫡傳弟子／嫡传弟子 嫡堂姪／嫡堂侄

嫡嫡親親／嫡嫡亲亲 嫡孫／嫡孙 (dísūn) 嫡孫承重／嫡孙承重 嫡親／嫡亲 嫡親兄弟／嫡亲兄弟 嫡長子／嫡长子 (dízhǎngzǐ) 廢嫡立庶／废嫡立庶 (fèi dí lì shù)

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Japanese

Kanji

嫡

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. legitimate wife

Readings

• Go-on: ちゃく (chaku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: てき (teki)
• Kun: よつぎ (yotsugi, 嫡)

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Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 嫡 (MC tek̚). Recorded as Middle Korean 뎍〮 (tyék) (Yale: tyek) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource嫡 (eumhun 정실(正室) 적 (jeongsil jeok))

1. Hanja form^? of 적 (“legitimate wife”).

Compounds

Compounds

• 적자 (嫡子, jeokja)
• 적손 (嫡孫, jeokson)
• 적류 (嫡流, jeongnyu)
• 적모 (嫡母, jeongmo)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

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Vietnamese

Han character

嫡: Hán Nôm readings: đích

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