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嫁

嫁

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 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, OC *kraːs) : semantic 女 + phonetic 家 ‎(OC *kraː).

Etymology

From 家 (jiā, “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

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
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
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		 /*kˤra-s/ /*s-kˤra-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. *[t] 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  ―  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. [Pinyin]
    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. (figuratively) 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

Compounds

  • 下嫁
  • 再嫁
  • 出嫁 (chūjià)
  • 前婚後嫁／前婚后嫁
  • 女大須嫁／女大须嫁
  • 女嫁男婚
  • 女長須嫁／女长须嫁
  • 婚嫁
  • 嫁人
  • 嫁奩／嫁奁
  • 嫁妝／嫁妆 (jiàzhuāng)
  • 嫁娶 (jiàqǔ)
  • 嫁接
  • 嫁狗隨狗／嫁狗随狗
  • 嫁禍／嫁祸
  • 嫁禍於人／嫁祸于人
  • 嫁資／嫁资
  • 嫁雞逐雞／嫁鸡逐鸡
  • 嫁雞隨雞／嫁鸡随鸡
  • 後嫁／后嫁
  • 從嫁／从嫁
  • 所嫁非人
  • 抱嫁
  • 招嫁
  • 改嫁
  • 新嫁娘
  • 為人作嫁／为人作嫁
  • 男婚女嫁
  • 發嫁／发嫁
  • 盲婚啞嫁／盲婚哑嫁
  • 租稅轉嫁／租税转嫁
  • 聘嫁
  • 許嫁／许嫁 (xǔjià)
  • 論及婚嫁／论及婚嫁
  • 賠嫁／赔嫁
  • 贈嫁／赠嫁
  • 轉嫁／转嫁 (zhuǎnjià)
  • 逃嫁
  • 過嫁妝／过嫁妆
  • 鍾馗嫁妹／钟馗嫁妹
  • 陪嫁 (péijià)
  • 雲英未嫁／云英未嫁

Japanese

Kanji

嫁

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. bride

Readings

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [jo̞me̞]

Noun

嫁 ‎(hiragana よめ, romaji yome)

  1. bride
  2. (Internet slang) waifu

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

嫁 • ‎(ga) (hangeul 가, revised ga, McCune-Reischauer ka)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嫁 (giá, gả, gá)

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