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嫡

JLPT N1 14 strokes Frequency: #2130

Meanings

Legitimate Wife, Direct Descent (non-bastard)

Radicals

女

Decomposition

⿰女啇

Etymology

Pictophonetic: woman

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 14

Stroke Order

1 curve right-to-left

2 diagonal top-to-bottom

3 rising bottom-to-top

4 vertical right-to-left

5 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

6 dot right-to-left

7 diagonal right-to-left

8 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

9 hook bottom-right-to-top-left

10 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

11 vertical right-to-left

12 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

13 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

14 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

チャク chaku

テキ teki

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

No common kun'yomi readings

Words Using This Kanji

16 words total

Other (16 words)

嫡嗣ちゃくし

legitimate heir

嫡披ちゃくひ

confidential letter

嫡子ちゃくし

heir

嫡流ちゃくりゅう

lineage of eldest son

嫡男ちゃくなん

legitimate son (esp. eldest son)

嫡出子ちゃくしゅつし

legitimate child

嫡孫ちゃくそん

eldest son's descendants

廃嫡はいちゃく

disinheritance

正嫡せいちゃく

legal wife

嫡妻ちゃくさい

one's legal wife

嫡室ちゃくしつ

one's legal wife

嫡出ちゃくしゅつ

legitimate birth

非嫡出子ひちゃくしゅつし

illegitimate child

嫡出推定ちゃくしゅつすいてい

presumption of legitimacy

嫡々ちゃくちゃく

legitimate family succession

嫡女ちゃくじょ

eldest daughter of a married couple