Hanja Analyzer
嫡

嫡 — jeok

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
정실 적
Romanization
jeok
English
legal wife, child of legal wife
Mandarin
dí
Japanese on'yomi
チャク, テキ, タク
Japanese kun'yomi
よつぎ
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#2,130 of 2,500
Strokes
14
Radical
女 (38, 11 residual)
Phonetic component
啇(적)
Unicode
U+5AE1

Parts that make up 嫡

  • 女 계집 녀 팔을 모으고 꿇어앉은 여자여자와 집안의 관계
  • 啇 나무 뿌리 적, 실과 꼭지 적, 밑둥 적sound 뿌리째 드러난 밑동‘적·제’ 계열의 소리

How 嫡 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 嫡 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 女, 啇.

Korean example words with 嫡

  • 적종嫡宗 Korean gloss: 바른 혈통
  • 적자嫡子 Korean gloss: 정실이 낳은 아들
  • 적출嫡出 Korean gloss: 정실이 낳은 자식
  • 적통嫡統 Korean gloss: 적자 자손의 계통
  • 적첩嫡妾 Korean gloss: 본처와 첩을 아울러 이르는 말
  • 적파嫡派 Korean gloss: 정실의 자손들로 이루어진 계통
  • 적처嫡妻 Korean gloss: 정식으로 예를 갖추어 맞은 아내
  • 적모嫡母 Korean gloss: 서자가 아버지의 정실을 이르는 말
  • 적형嫡兄 Korean gloss: 첩에게서 난 아들이 정실에게서 난 형을 이르는 말
  • 적서嫡庶 Korean gloss: 적자와 서자, 또는 적파와 서파를 아울러 이르는 말
  • 적전하다嫡傳 Korean gloss: 정통의 혈통에서 정통으로 이어받다
  • 적녀嫡女 Korean gloss: 정실이 낳은 딸.

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

Japanese words with 嫡

  • 嫡出ちゃくしゅつ legitimate birth
  • 嫡子ちゃくし heir; legitimate child
  • 嫡嗣ちゃくし legitimate heir
  • 嫡孫ちゃくそん eldest son's descendants
  • 嫡男ちゃくなん legitimate son (esp. eldest son); heir
  • 嫡披ちゃくひ confidential letter
  • 嫡流ちゃくりゅう direct line of descent; lineage of eldest son; main branch of a family
  • 廃嫡はいちゃく disinheritance
  • 正嫡せいちゃく legal wife; her child; main family
  • 嫡妻ちゃくさい one's legal wife; legitimate wife
  • 嫡室ちゃくしつ one's legal wife; legitimate wife
  • 嫡々ちゃくちゃく legitimate family succession; direct family lineage

Characters sharing the phonetic 啇

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 “적” in Korean.

Other hanja read “적”

Other hanja with radical 女

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