zi

letter, character, word

HSK 1 #393

DEFINITIONS

字 zì
  • letter
  • symbol
  • character
  • word
  • CL:個|个[ge4]
  • courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China

STROKES

WORDS

五筆型 wǔ bǐ zì xíng five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983
五笔形 wǔ bǐ zì xíng Chinese character input method for entering characters by numbered strokes; variant of 五筆字型|五笔字型[wu3 bi3 zi4 xing2]
五筆形 wǔ bǐ zì xíng Chinese character input method for entering characters by numbered strokes; variant of 五筆字型|五笔字型[wu3 bi3 zi4 xing2]
棋 jǐng zì qí tic-tac-toe
拖 rén zì tuō flip-flops; abbr. for 人字拖鞋[ren2 zi4 tuo1 xie2]
拖鞋 rén zì tuō xié flip-flops; flip-flop sandals; thongs; see also 人字拖[ren2 zi4 tuo1]
洞 rén zì dòng Renzidong palaeolithic archaeological site at Fanchang 繁昌[Fan2 chang1], Anhui
dài zì abbreviated name of an entity (e.g. 皖政, a short name for 安徽省人民政府); code name; (old) pronoun
号 dài zì hào swung dash; tilde (~)
號 dài zì hào swung dash; tilde (~)
例外 lì wài zì exception(s)
sú zì nonstandard form of a Chinese character
俗体 sú tǐ zì nonstandard form of a Chinese character
俗體 sú tǐ zì nonstandard form of a Chinese character
个人数助理 gè rén shù zì zhù lǐ personal digital assistant (PDA)
個人數助理 gè rén shù zì zhù lǐ personal digital assistant (PDA)
jiè zì see 通假字[tong1 jia3 zi4]
儿 jiè zì r IOU; receipt for a loan
兒 jiè zì r IOU; receipt for a loan
假借 jiǎ jiè zì loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters); character acquiring meanings by phonetic association; also called phonetic loan
节 zhào zì jié megabyte (2^20 or approximately a million bytes)
節 zhào zì jié megabyte (2^20 or approximately a million bytes)
光学符识别 guāng xué zì fú shí bié optical character recognition, OCR
光學符識別 guāng xué zì fú shí bié optical character recognition, OCR
克漏 kè lòu zì cloze (loanword) (Tw)