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单子 (dān zǐ): meaning and stroke order

单子 (dān zǐ) means the only son of a family, (functional programming or philosophy) monad, list of items.

单子

Simplified
单子
Traditional
單子
Pinyin
dān zǐ · dān zi

Stroke order of 单子

单

  • Shàn surname Shan
  • chán used in 單于|单于[chan2 yu2]
  • dān bill; list
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 單

Stroke by stroke

子

  • zǐ son; child
  • zi noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 单子

  1. dān zǐ Traditional 單子
    • the only son of a family
    • (functional programming or philosophy) monad
  2. dān zi Traditional 單子
    • list of items
    • bill
    • form
    • bedsheet

Radicals of the characters

单
Radical 十 (Kangxi radical 24) · 8 strokes
子
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 3 strokes · built from 了 and 一

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

单子 in our stories

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  • 她在一堆发黄的账本里翻了整整两个星期,终于找到了一张修船厂的单子。

    tā zài yì duī fāhuáng de zhàngběn lǐ fān le zhěngzhěng liǎng gè xīngqī zhōngyú zhǎodào le yì zhāng xiūchuánchǎng de dānzi

    She searched through a pile of yellowed account books for two whole weeks, and at last found a slip from a shipyard.

    From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 单子

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).