# 嫡

| 嫡 | U+5AE1, &#23265; 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 4042$_7$, 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
### Glyph origin

| | 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 (di$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): dik$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: dí
*** Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: dí
*** Wade–Giles: ti$^2$
*** Yale: dí
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dyi
*** Palladius: ди (di)
*** Sinological IPA : /ti³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: dik$^1$
*** Yale: dīk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dik$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: dig$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /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 | zak$^1$ | dik$^1$ |
* 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)
** 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

(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

Wikisource 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.

## Vietnamese
### Han character

嫡: Hán Nôm readings: đích
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