legal wife

Components

Meaning component
nǚ, nü woman

woman

Sound component
dì, shì, zhāi stalk, stem, root

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttektˤekson of principal wife
Zhengzhangrteɡ
teːɡ

說文解字

孎也。从女啻聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica