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Kanji Detail for 嫡 - "legitimate, heir, proper"
嫡
- Meaning
嫡 means "legitimate, heir, proper."
Legitimate - Born of a legal marriage; lawful.
Heir - One who inherits; a successor.
Proper wife - The legal spouse; the principal wife.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
legitimate wife; direct descent (non-bastard)
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
legal wife, child of legal wife
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
(bound form) of or by the wife, as opposed to a concubine (contrasted with 庶[shu4])
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
wife, wife's child
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A woman married as the principal wife is called 嫡. Children born to the principal wife are called 嫡子.
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