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嫡男

Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
嫡 男
ちゃく
Grade: S 		なん
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Etymology edit

By surface analysis, 嫡 (chaku, “legitimate wife”) +‎ 男 (nan, “son”), literally “legitimate wife's son”.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

嫡(ちゃく)男(なん) • (chakunan) 

  1. oldest legitimate son
    清盛(きよもり)嫡男(ちゃくなん)たるによって、其(その)跡(あと)をつぐ。
    Kiyomori chakunan taru ni yotte, sono ato o tsugu.
    As Kiyomori was the first legitimate son, he inherited that stead.
    • 1330, 平家物語 [The Tale of the Heike / Heike Monogatari]:

Hypernyms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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