子
Ancient forms
4 formsGlyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
- (noun suffix)
- 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 位
- ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)
- subsidiary
- subordinate
- sub-
How often each reading is used
Example sentences
HSK words with 子 · 24 of 146
- 孩子 háizi child
- 儿子 érzi son
- 房子 fángzi house
- 桌子 zhuōzi table
- 杯子 bēizi cup
- 本子 běnzi book
- 包子 bāozi bao (steamed stuffed bun)
- 样子 yàngzi appearance
- 日子 rìzi day
- 椅子 yǐzi chair
- 例子 lìzi case
- 院子 yuànzi courtyard
- 瓶子 píngzi bottle
- 句子 jùzi sentence
- 筷子 kuàizi chopsticks
- 个子 gèzi height
- 饺子 jiǎozi dumpling
- 女子 nǚzǐ woman
- 男子 nánzǐ a man; a male
- 裤子 kùzi pants
- 屋子 wūzi house
- 种子 zhǒngzi seed
- 裙子 qúnzi skirt
- 牌子 páizi sign