嫡
legitimate; legitimate wife; direct descent (non-bastard)
14 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school. Newspaper frequency rank 2130.
Readings
Components
- 女
- 啇
- 亠 radical lid
- 冂 radical open box, upside down
- 十 radical ten
- 丷 radical horns, inverted eight
- 口 radical mouth
- 女 radical woman
- 立 radical stand
- 滴 radical stem; root, as in 適, 敵
Words using 嫡
- 嫡男 (ちゃくなん) legitimate son (esp. eldest son)
- 嫡子 (ちゃくし) heir
- 嫡流 (ちゃくりゅう) direct line of descent
- 廃嫡 (はいちゃく) disinheritance
- 嫡孫 (ちゃくそん) eldest son's descendants
16 words in all.