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

头螺刀 shí zì tóu luó dāo Phillips screwdriver (i.e. with cross slit)
頭螺刀 shí zì tóu luó dāo Phillips screwdriver (i.e. with cross slit)
文 qiān zì wén Thousand Character Classic, 6th century poem used as a traditional reading primer
节 qiān zì jié kilobyte
節 qiān zì jié kilobyte
南十座 nán shí zì zuò Crux (constellation); Southern Cross
旁 chǎng zì páng name of "cliff" 厂 radical in simplified Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 27)
反义 fǎn yì zì character with opposite meaning; antonym; opposite characters
反義 fǎn yì zì character with opposite meaning; antonym; opposite characters
gǔ zì old character; archaic form of a Chinese character
古文学 gǔ wén zì xué paleography
古文學 gǔ wén zì xué paleography
合体 hé tǐ zì a Chinese character formed by combining existing elements - i.e. a combined ideogram 會意|会意 or radical plus phonetic 形聲|形声
合體 hé tǐ zì a Chinese character formed by combining existing elements - i.e. a combined ideogram 會意|会意 or radical plus phonetic 形聲|形声
节 jí zì jié gigabyte (2^30 or approximately a billion bytes)
節 jí zì jié gigabyte (2^30 or approximately a billion bytes)
框 tóng zì kuàng name of radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 13); see also 冂[jiong1]
同义 tóng yì zì synonym
同義 tóng yì zì synonym
yǎo zì to pronounce (clearly or otherwise); to enunciate
咬文嚼 yǎo wén jiáo zì to bite words and chew characters (idiom); punctilious about minutiae of wording
nán zì Vietnam characters (like Chinese characters but native to Vietnam)
单一合体 dān yī hé tǐ zì unique compound
單一合體 dān yī hé tǐ zì unique compound
dān zì single Chinese character; word (in a foreign language)