zi

offspring, child; fruit, seed of; 1st terrestrial branch

DEFINITIONS

子 zi
  • (noun suffix)
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)

STROKES

WORDS

kǒu zi hole; opening; cut; gap; gash; my husband or wife; classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc); precedent
páo zi Chinese-style gown
xiē zi scorpion
shuā zi brush; scrub; CL:把[ba3]
lín zi woods; grove; forest
tái zi desk; (pool etc) table; platform; stand
shèng zǐ Holy Son; Jesus Christ; God the Son (in the Christian Trinity)
hàn zi man; fellow; (dialect) husband
里 gǔ zi lǐ beneath the surface; fundamentally; at the deepest level
两下 liǎng xià zi a couple of times; to repeat the same; the same old trick; tricks of the trade
mǔ zǐ mother and child; parent and subsidiary (companies); principal and interest
pāi zi beat (music); paddle-shaped object (flyswatter etc); racket (sports)
pǐ zi ruffian; hooligan
tū zi bald-headed person; baldy
孙 zǐ sūn offspring; posterity
jiǎ zǐ first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干[tian1 gan1] and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1]); the sixty-year cycle
下辈 xià bèi zi the next life
chǎng zi (coll.) gathering place; public venue
gān zi pole
gǎn zi pole; stick; club; gang of bandits
lì zi chestnut
狗 shī zi gǒu Pekingese; Pekinese
lù zi method; way; approach
zhǎng zǐ Zhangzi county in Shanxi 山西[Shan1 xi1]; eldest son
拉肚 lā dù zi (coll.) to have diarrhea