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

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

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/

Middle Chinese: traek, tek

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
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/
Bernhard 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

primary wife; legal wife
Antonym: 庶 (shù)
1. of or by the legal wife
short for 嫡子 (dízǐ, “son of one's legal wife”)
of lineal descent; closely related
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 (díqīn)
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

(Jōyō kanji)

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

嫡 (eumhun 정실(正室) 적)

hanja form^? of 적 (“legitimate wife”)

Compounds

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

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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