嫡 — Chinese character
嫡
dí
wife, wife's child
- Pinyin
- dí
- Radical
- 38 ⼥ (Woman)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 女 啇
- Formation
- pictophonetic — woman; meaning component 女; sound component 啇
- Japanese
- 嫡 as a kanji
Common words with 嫡
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 嫡系 | dí xì | direct line of descent; under one's personal command |
| 嫡传 (嫡傳) | dí chuán | handed down in a direct line from the founder |
| 嫡子 | dí zǐ | son, esp. the eldest son, of the wife (contrasted with 庶子 (shù zǐ)) |
| 嫡亲 (嫡親) | dí qīn | closely related by blood |
| 嫡出 | dí chū | born of the wife (i.e. not of a concubine) |
| 嫡堂 | dí táng | having the same paternal grandfather but different father |
| 嫡母 | dí mǔ | father's wife (term used by the children of a concubine to address their father's primary wife) |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.