zi

(noun suffix); son; child

Character data

HSK 1
Frequency 37th character
Radical ⼦ (39.0)
Strokes 3
Index # 64

Definitions

子 zi
  1. 1. (noun suffix)
子 zǐ
  1. 1. son
  2. 2. child
  3. 3. seed
  4. 4. egg
  5. 5. small thing
  6. 6. 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat
  7. 7. ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)
  8. 8. Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility wǔ děng jué wèi

Stroke order

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Words containing 子

Word Meaning
a good man shuns the slaughterhouse
Wuzi, ancient Chinese war strategy book
Wuzi, ancient military text by Wu Qi
attractor (math., dynamical systems)
attractor network
attractor network
to get angry; to fume
son orphaned of his mother
(dialect) saliva; also written hā lá zi
whistling sound
whistling sound
(coll.) (emphasizing a rhetorical question) what; what kind
sputter
mute person; dumb person
mute person; dumb person
promoter
promoter
the only son of a family
list of items; bill; form
monocot; plant with one seed leaf
monocot; plant with one seed leaf
erhua variant of sǎng zi yǎn
erhua variant of sǎng zi yǎn
adopted son; heir
variant of lóu zi