子 (zǐ): meaning and stroke order
子 (zǐ) means son, child, seed, egg, small thing.
子
- Simplified
- 子
- Traditional
- 子 (same form)
- Pinyin
- zǐ · zi
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Stroke order of 子
子
- zǐ son; child
- zi noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
- 3 strokes
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Meaning of 子
-
zǐ
- son
- child
- seed
- egg
- small thing
- 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat
- viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
- ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)
- subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
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zi
- noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
Radical and structure
- 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.
Words with 子
- 儿子 ér zi son
- 金子 Jīn zǐ Kaneko (Japanese surname)
- 公子 gōng zǐ son of an official; son of nobility
- 面子 miàn zi outer surface; the outside of sth; social prestige; face
- 日子 rì zi day; a (calendar) date
- 身子 shēn zi body; pregnancy
- 单子 dān zǐ the only son of a family; (functional programming or philosophy) monad
- 太子 tài zǐ crown prince
- 盘子 pán zi tray; plate
- 果子 guǒ zi fruit; variant of 餜子|馃子[guo3 zi5]
- 母子 mǔ zǐ mother and child; parent and subsidiary (companies)
- 院子 yuàn zi courtyard; garden
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).