嫡出子

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 嫡出子(ちゃくしゅつし) is a term for a child born within marriage.
• Basic usage: It appears in relevant documents or explanations of family institutions.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Register of a classification term
  • Its focus is classification based on the parents' marital relationship, making it suited to institutional contexts rather than everyday ways of referring to a child.
• Tone of the English translation
  • Child born within marriage describes the relationship directly. Legitimate child is a traditional legal classification, to be read separately from an everyday judgment of worth.