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 Dictionary: 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

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–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dik¹
    • Yale: dīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: dig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɪk̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: traek, tek

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
Baxter	traek	tek
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

• 奪嫡／夺嫡
• 嫡傳／嫡传
• 嫡傳弟子／嫡传弟子
• 嫡出 (díchū)
• 嫡嗣
• 嫡堂
• 嫡堂姪／嫡堂侄
• 嫡妻 (díqī)
• 嫡嫡親親／嫡嫡亲亲
• 嫡子 (dízǐ)
• 嫡孫／嫡孙 (dísūn)
• 嫡孫承重／嫡孙承重
• 嫡庶
• 嫡支嫡派
• 嫡母 (dímǔ)
• 嫡派 (dípài)
• 嫡系 (díxì)
• 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)

 

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)

Compounds

• 嫡(ちゃく)男(なん) (chakunan)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 嫡 (MC tek). 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( 正室 ) 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. [1]

Vietnamese

Han character

嫡: Hán Nôm readings: đích

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