嫁 (Kangxi radical 38,女+10, 13 strokes,cangjie input女十一人 (VJMO),four-corner4343₂,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; tomarry off”), formed with the prolific Old Chinese causative prefix *s-. Compare娶.

嫁

1. (of a woman) tomarry; to becomemarried to

   Coordinate terms:娶(of a man),𤆬(of a man)

   嫁不出去  ― jià bù chūqù  ―  to be unable to get married (to anyone); to beleft 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 qùniánjià gěi le dàxué tóngxué.[Pinyin]

   Shemarried her university classmate last year.

2. togive adaughter inmarriage; tomarry 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) totransfer; toshift (harm, charge, etc.); to put the (blame) on another person

   嫁禍於人／嫁祸于人  ― jiàhuòyúrén  ―  toshift the blame on others

4. asurname,Jia

• (to marry):

• (to transfer):

• “嫁”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1],香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong),2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆[Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “嫁”, in莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page103.

(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[yòmé] (Heiban – [0])^[1][2][3]
• IPA^(key): [jo̞me̞]

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, page62:

     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 noo-yome-san sa shite ne~~‼

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

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

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

   Synonym:婿(muko,“husbando”)

   Coordinate term:婿(muko,“husbando”)

• “嫁”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2026

FromMiddle Chinese嫁 (MC kaeH). Recorded asMiddle Korean가〯(kǎ) (Yale:ka) inHunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

KoreanWikisource has texts containing thehanja:

嫁

嫁 (eumhun시집갈가(sijipgal ga))

1. hanja form^? of가(“tomarry;give adaughter inmarriage”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary,전자사전／電子字典.[3]

嫁:Hán Nôm readings:giá,gả,gá

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