嫁

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

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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

From 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.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 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. [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. (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

Synonyms

• (to marry):

(deprecated template usage)

• 作對／作对 (zuòduì, “to pair off in marriage”)
• 匹偶 (pǐ'ǒu) (literary)
• 匹配 (pǐpèi)
• 娶 (of a man)
• 婚嫁 (hūnjià)
• 婚配 (hūnpèi)
• 嫁娶 (jiàqǔ)
• 安家 (ānjiā) (figurative)
• 完婚 (wánhūn)
• 完成 (wánchéng) (literary)
• 成婚 (chénghūn)
• 成家 (chéngjiā) (of a man)
• 成親／成亲 (chéngqīn)
• 桃夭 (táoyāo) (literary)
• 𤆬 (“to take a wife”) (Hokkien, Teochew, Leizhou Min)
• 𤆬新娘 (“to take a wife”) (Min Nan)
• 𤆬新婦／𤆬新妇 (“to take a wife”)
• 結合／结合 (jiéhé)
• 結婚／结婚 (jiéhūn)
• 聯結／联结 (liánjié)

 

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

嫁

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. bride

Readings

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

Etymology

Kanji in this term
嫁
よめ Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jo̞me̞]

Noun

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) (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, okay〰〰⁉

     (literally, “Make Monami…… Musashi-kun’s bride〰〰‼”)

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 花(はな)嫁(よめ) (hanayome)
• 俺(おれ)の嫁(よめ) (ore no yome)
• 嫁(よめ)入(い)り (yomeiri)

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. to marry
2. give a daughter in marriage

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 嫁 (giá, gả, gá)

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