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legitimate wife

On-Yomi: チャク、テキ

Elements:

legitimate wife, woman, antique, vase, stand up, hood, old, tombstone, gravestone, church, ten, needle, mouth

Primitive:

antique(antyk, zabytek) The primitive meaning antique, not itself a kanji, depicts a vase kept under a glass hood because it is very, very old. [11]

Heisig story:

The phrase legitimate wife would have no meaning if there were not such things as "illegitimate wives," taken because one's legal woman has turned into an antique. The very offense of the idea should help you remember the kanji.

Koohii stories:

1) [thegeezer3] 11-5-2007(170): Legitmate wifes tend to be women who are antiques in contrast to the young bit of illigitmate fluff on the side.

2) [Doodsaq] 5-12-2009(91): Your legitimate wife is like an antique bong. Its not your favorite but you still hit it sometimes…

3) [Ninjasha] 24-3-2008(81): The woman you'll want to be with even when you're both antique should be your LEGITIMATE WIFE.

4) [Biene] 19-5-2012(36): When the legitimate wife finds her husband flirting with another woman, she'll take the valuable antique Ming-vase and whacks him with it over the head. That should teach him a lesson!

5) [isharabash] 17-7-2009(16): The legitimate wife is the woman who gets your antiques when you die!

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