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嫁 = 女 + 家

嫁 is a Japanese kanji written with 13 strokes, listed here under the keyword “marry into”. It is built from 女 (woman) and 家 (house). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 581.

Keyword
marry into
RTK frame
581
Strokes
13
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
カ
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
よめ, とつ.ぐ, い.く, ゆ.く
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
жениться на
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
嫁 to marry

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 女 woman
  2. 家 house

How to find 嫁 without knowing its reading

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

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