妻子 (qī zǐ): meaning and stroke order
妻子 (qī zǐ) means wife and children, wife.
妻子
- Simplified
- 妻子
- Traditional
- 妻子 (same form)
- Pinyin
- qī zǐ · qī zi
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Stroke order of 妻子
妻
- qī (bound form) wife
- qì to marry off (a daughter)
- 8 strokes
Stroke by stroke
子
- zǐ son; child
- zi noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
- 3 strokes
Stroke by stroke
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Meaning of 妻子
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qī zǐ
- wife and children
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qī zi
- wife
Radicals of the characters
- 妻
- Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 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.
妻子 in our stories
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他用妻子的手机给自己打电话。
tā yòng qīzi de shǒujī gěi zìjǐ dǎ diànhuà
He uses his wife's phone to call his own number.
From the story Where's my phone? HSK 2
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后羿舍不得离开妻子嫦娥，就让她把药放好。
Hòu Yì shěbude líkāi qīzi Cháng'é jiù ràng tā bǎ yào fàng hǎo
Hou Yi couldn't bear to leave his wife Chang'e, so he had her keep the medicine safe.
From the story Chang'e flies to the moon HSK 3
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老人告诉他，这些书都是他年轻时从这里借的，那时他和妻子每读一本，就去书里的城市旅行一次。
lǎorén gàosu tā zhèxiē shū dōu shì tā niánqīng shí cóng zhèli jiè de nàshí tā hé qīzi měi dú yì běn jiù qù shū lǐ de chéngshì lǚxíng yí cì
The old man told him that he had borrowed all these books here when he was young; back then, every time he and his wife read one, they went to travel in that city.
From the story Flowers in the book return HSK 5
Stories using 妻子
- Where's my phone? HSK 2
- Chang'e flies to the moon HSK 3
- Flowers in the book return HSK 5
- Zhang Qian's mission to the West HSK 6
- The bow's reflection in the cup HSK 7–9 · Level 7
- Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8
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).