嫁

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

• 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

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

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.

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

• (to marry):

• (to transfer):

• 娶 (qǔ)

• “嫁”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “嫁”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 103.

(Jōyō kanji)

1. bride

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: か (ka, Jōyō)
• Kun: よめ (yome, 嫁, Jōyō)、とつぐ (totsugu, 嫁ぐ, Jōyō)

• 許(きょ)嫁(か) (kyoka)
• 降(こう)嫁(か) (kōka)
• 惣(そう)嫁(か) (sōka)
• 転(てん)嫁(か) (tenka)

 嫁 on Japanese Wikipedia

 俺の嫁 on Japanese Wikipedia

There are several theories, all of which analyse it as よ (yo) + 女(め) (me, “woman, female”). However, よ (yo) may be one of the following:

• 呼 (“to call out, invite”, in reference to welcoming the daughter-in-law as the son’s wife)
• 弱 (“weak”, in reference to the inferior position relative to the mother-in-law)
• 夜 (“night”, in reference to serving the husband at night)
• 良 (“good”)
• 吉 (“good luck”)

• (Tokyo) よめ (Heiban – )^[1][2][3]
• IPA^(key):

嫁(よめ) • (yome) 

1. bride
   • 1984 February 20 [1982 September 15], Motoka Murakami, “父(と)っちゃより大(おお)きくの巻(まき) [Ah’ll Be Taller than Pa]”, in 六(ム)三(サ)四(シ)の剣(けん) [Musashi’s Sword], 6th edition, volume 8 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 62:

     六(ム)三(サ)四(シ)くん！私(わたくし)たちのこと忘(わす)れないで——‼

     Musashi-kun! Watakushi-tachi no koto wasure nai de——‼

     Musashi-kun! Don’t forget about us——‼

     おやぶーん、いつか帰(かえ)ってこいよ〰‼

     Oyabūn, itsuka kaette koi yo~‼

     Come see us someday, boss~!?

     もなみを……六(ム)三(サ)四(シ)くんのお嫁(よめ)さんさしてね〰〰‼

     Monami o…… Musashi-kun no o-yome-san sa shite ne~~‼

     When we grow up… marry me, okaaay~!?

     (literally, “Make Monami… Musashi-kun’s bride~!!”)

2. daughter in law
3. (archaic, now chiefly Kansai) wife
4. (Internet slang) waifu or husbando

   Synonym: 婿 (muko, “husbando”)

   Coordinate term: 婿 (muko, “husbando”)

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

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

嫁

Wikisource

嫁 (eumhun 시집갈 가 (sijipgal ga))

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

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

嫁: Hán Nôm readings: giá, gả, gá

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