嫡男

Japanese
Kanji in this term
嫡 男
ちゃく
Grade: S		 なん
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Etymology

By surface analysis, 嫡 (chaku, “legitimate wife”) +‎ 男 (nan, “son”), literally “legitimate wife's son”.

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) ちゃく​なん [chàkúꜜnàǹ] (Nakadaka – [2])[1][2]
  • IPA(key): [t͡ɕa̠kɯ̟ᵝnã̠ɴ]

Noun

嫡(ちゃく)男(なん) • (chakunan) 

  1. oldest legitimate son
    清盛(きよもり)嫡男(ちゃくなん)たるによって、其(その)跡(あと)をつぐ。
    Kiyomori chakunan taru ni yotte, sono ato o tsugu.
    As Kiyomori was the first legitimate son, he inherited that stead.
    • 1330, 平家物語 [The Tale of the Heike / Heike Monogatari]:

Hypernyms

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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