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嫡 = 女 + 啇

嫡 is a Japanese kanji written with 14 strokes, listed here under the keyword “legitimate wife”. It is built from 女 (woman) and 啇 (teki). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 472.

Keyword
legitimate wife
RTK frame
472
Strokes
14
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
チャク, テキ
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
законная жена
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
嫡 legal wife

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 女 woman
  2. 啇 teki

How to find 嫡 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “woman” + “teki”. 嫡 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

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