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嫡: legitimate wife, direct descent (non-bastard)

JLPT N114 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

女 carries the meaning · 啇 gives the sound

14 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

チャクchaku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 嫡出ちゃくしゅつlegitimate birth
  • 嫡子ちゃくしheir
  • 嫡嗣ちゃくしlegitimate heir

Also read テキ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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“Grace and strength! This is the radical of the feminine, representing mothers, daughters, and the many roles women have played throughout history.”
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繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
女

Also built on woman (女)

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啇

Also built on 啇

嫡 takes the 啇 family's reading, テキ (teki).

Also read チャク

3 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read テキ

7 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
嫡 legitimate wife · 女
vs適 suitable · ⻌
嫡 has 女 where 適 has ⻌.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · dí

Same form: 嫡 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
嫡 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
嫡 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin dí most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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