嫁

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嫁 U+5AC1, 嫁
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AC1
← 嫀
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 嫂 →

Translingual

Han character

嫁 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女十一人 (VJMO), four-corner 43432, composition ⿰女家)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 268, character 33
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6602
  • Dae Jaweon: page 536, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1073, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+5AC1

Chinese

trad. 嫁
simp. # 嫁

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (家) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
家 *kraː
傢 *kraː
幏 *kraː, *kraːs
稼 *kraːs
嫁 *kraːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kraːs) : semantic 女 + phonetic 家 (OC *kraː).

Etymology

Exoactive of 家 (OC *kraː, “home, house”), with the addition of the denominal verbalisation suffix *-s in Old Chinese, meaning “to go to one's new home; to become married”. In the Baxter–Sagart system, an additional pronunciation is posited for the causative sense (“to make someone become married; to marry off”), formed with the prolific Old Chinese causative prefix *s-. Compare 娶.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • kà/kèe - literary;
  • kè - vernacular.
Rime
Character 嫁
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 麻 (98)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古訝切
Baxter kaeH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kˠaH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kᵚaH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kaH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kaɨH/
Li
Rong 		/kaH/
Wang
Li 		/kaH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kaH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jià
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gaa3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 嫁 嫁
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jià jià
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kæH › ‹ kæH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*kˁra-s/ /*s-kˁra-s/
English go (as a bride) to one"s new home send (one’s daughter) as a bride

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 嫁
Reading # 1/1
No. 5923
Phonetic
component 		家
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		駕
Old
Chinese 		/*kraːs/

Definitions

嫁

  1. (of a woman) to marry; to become married to
    嫁不出去  ―  jià bù chūqù  ―  to be unable to get married (to anyone); to be left on the shelf
    她去年嫁給了大學同學。 [MSC, trad.]
    她去年嫁给了大学同学。 [MSC, simp.]
    Tā qùnián jià gěi le dàxué tóngxué.
    She married her university classmate last year.
  2. to give a daughter in marriage; to marry off
    嫁女兒／嫁女儿  ―  jià nǚ'ér  ―  to give a daughter in marriage; to try to marry off a daughter
  3. (figurative) to transfer; to shift (harm, charge, etc.); to put the (blame) on another person
    嫁禍於人／嫁祸于人  ―  jiàhuòyúrén  ―  to shift the blame on others
  4. a surname: Jia

Synonyms

  • (to marry):
  • (to transfer):

Coordinate terms

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

嫁

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. bride

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
嫁
よめ
Grade: S
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 嫁 – see the following entry.
【よめ】
bride
daughter in law
(archaic, now chiefly Kansai) wife
(Internet slang) waifu or husbando
(This term, 嫁, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 嫁 (MC kaeH). Recorded as Middle Korean 가〯 (kǎ) (Yale: ka) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

嫁 (eumhun 시집갈 가 (sijipgal ga))

  1. Hanja form? of 가 (“to marry; give a daughter in marriage”).

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

嫁: Hán Nôm readings: giá, gả, gá

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