Character Details
| child | Ascii: 36215 | w235 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 子 | zi | dzeuh | 4 | 子 (child) → child; son | 子 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Pictograph of a child. The body looks like the number seven (a childhood age) and the horizontal stroke going through it are the arms. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - child/son. Also used as a suffix on some nouns, particularly small animals and objects. Examples: 孩, 字, 帽子 | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Is that your son? | - How much is this cup? | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 39 - 子 | zǐ | child z | child | child shape | 子 孙 字 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 子 (child) → child; son | 子 (semantic) | — | pure semantic | ||||||||