Hanja Analyzer
嫁

嫁 — ga

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
시집갈 가
Romanization
ga
English
to marry, give a daughter in marriage
Mandarin
jià
Japanese on'yomi
カ, ケ
Japanese kun'yomi
よめ とつ.ぐ い.く ゆ.く
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#1,581 of 2,500
Strokes
13
Radical
女 (38, 10 residual)
Phonetic component
家(가)
Unicode
U+5AC1

Parts that make up 嫁

  • 女 계집 녀 팔을 모으고 꿇어앉은 여자여자와 집안의 관계
  • 家 집 가sound 집 안의 돼지집. ‘가’ 계열의 소리

How 嫁 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 嫁 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 女, 家.

Korean example words with 嫁

  • 가취嫁娶 Korean gloss: 시집가고 장가듦
  • 가기嫁期 Korean gloss: 시집갈 만한 나이
  • 출가出嫁 Korean gloss: 처녀가 시집을 감
  • 개가改嫁 Korean gloss: 결혼하였던 여자가 남편과 사별하거나 이혼하여 다른 남자와 결혼함
  • 혼가하다婚嫁 Korean gloss: 남자와 여자가 부부가 되다
  • 재가하다再嫁 Korean gloss: 결혼하였던 여자가 남편과 사별하거나 이혼하여 다른 남자와 결혼하다
  • 하가하다下嫁 Korean gloss: 공주나 옹주가 귀족이나 신하에게로 시집가다. 지체가 낮은 곳으로 시집간다는 뜻에서 나온 말이다
  • 미가전未嫁前 Korean gloss: 시집을 가기 전
  • 출가녀出嫁女 Korean gloss: 결혼한 여성을 이르는 말
  • 귀가歸嫁 Korean gloss: 시집을 감.
  • 여가女嫁 Korean gloss: 딸을 시집보냄.
  • 빙가聘嫁 Korean gloss: 장가들고 시집감.

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 嫁

  • 嫁よめ bride; (one's) daughter-in-law; wife
  • 花嫁はなよめ bride
  • 転嫁てんか imputation; shifting (blame, responsibility, etc.); passing the buck
  • 嫁入りよめいり marriage (of a woman); marrying into a husband's family; becoming a bride
  • 嫁ぐとつぐ to marry (of a woman); to become a bride; to marry into (a family)
  • 嫁ぎ先とつぎさき family a woman has married into
  • 責任転嫁せきにんてんか shifting the responsibility (for something) on to (someone); passing the buck
  • 嫁菜よめな Aster yomena (Asiatic species of aster)
  • 兄嫁あによめ elder brother's wife; sister-in-law
  • 再嫁さいか remarriage (of a woman)
  • 弟嫁おとうとよめ younger brother's wife
  • 許嫁いいなずけ fiancé; fiancée

Characters sharing the phonetic 家

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “가” in Korean.

Other hanja read “가”

Other hanja with radical 女

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