嫁 means “bride, daughter-in-law”

よめ · yome

Also: marry into

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

よめ, とつぐ, いく, ゆく

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

カ

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 13 strokes

The story

A woman (女) entering a house (家): in the old Japanese family, a bride married into her husband's household. 嫁 is the bride or daughter-in-law, 花嫁 the bride in white, and 責任転嫁 is shifting the blame onto someone else.

Used in 花嫁 (hanayome, bride), 嫁ぐ (totsugu, to marry into a family), and 責任転嫁 (sekinin tenka, shifting the blame)

More from Kin & Cradle

• 娠 pregnancy
• 胎 womb
• 叔 uncle
• 姻 marriage
• 婿 son-in-law
• 嫡 legitimate heir
• 嗣 heir
• 哺 nurse
• 戚 relatives
• 氏 family name
• 系 lineage
• 郎 son

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