Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- dí
English
- legal wife, child of legal wife
- (bound form) of or by the wife, as opposed to a concubine (contrasted with 庶[shu4])
- related to legal wife
粵語
- 同正室有關嘅
Words containing 嫡
- 嫡子dik1 zi2
son, esp. the eldest son, of the wife (contrasted with 庶子[shu4 zi3])
- 嫡系dik1 hai6
direct line of descent
- 嫡親dik1 can1
closely related by blood
- 嫡派dik1 paai3
authentic skills
- 嫡出dik1 ceot1
born of the wife (i.e. not of a concubine)
- 嫡傳dik1 cyun4
handed down in a direct line from the founder
- 嫡母dik1 mou5
father's wife (term used by the children of a concubine to address their father's primary wife)
- 嫡堂dik1 tong4
having the same paternal grandfather but different father
- 長子嫡孫coeng4 zi2 dik1 syun1
the heir; literally: eldest son and legitimate grandson ----