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  *子* | 子* | *子
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 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *子* | 子* | *子
noun suffix, as in 椅子 "chair"
HSK 1
children; sons and daughters
HSK 3
people
subset
offspring / child's generation
offspring / posterity
HSK 7-9
(idiom) (of a son) to carry on one's father's business or profession
Confucius says:
(idiom) to have no basis in fact; to be the product of sb's imagination
subgroup (math.)
mother and son / interest and capital / combination of a large object and a smaller one of the same type
(coll.) penny / buck
Year 1, year of the Rat (e.g. 2008)
subsidiary company / subsidiary corporation
(math.) subspace
HSK 5
Zi Lu (542-480 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子, also known as Ji Lu 季路
cervical cancer
child / the younger generation
HSK 7-9
meridian
intrauterine device (IUD)
cervical smear (Tw)
11 pm-1 am (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)
subnetwork
subsystem
uterus / womb
Zi Gong or Duanmu Ci 端木賜|端木赐 (520 BC-), disciple of Confucius
cuckoo
ovary (botany)
submodel
consonant
Zishou County in Yulin 榆林, Shaanxi
artillery cluster bomb
pessary
pre-eclampsia, toxaemia of pregnancy (medicine)
clause (grammar)
sub-brand
first two of the twelve earthly branches 十二地支 / by ext., the earthly branches
viscount
subfield (math.)
Zi Chan (?-522 BC), statesman and philosopher during the Spring and Autumn period
subroutine
child (computing)
wall of the uterus
bullet train / Shinkansen 新幹線|新干线, Japanese high-speed train
Zishou County in Yulin 榆林, Shaanxi
(computing) submenu
sublayer
subset (math.)
ascomycete
cervix; the neck of the uterus
cluster bomb
seed
cotyledon (first embryonic leaf)
snap fastener
subnet mask (computing)
son / heir
subheading / specific item
midnight
goddess of fertility
(idiom) one's posterity
(military) cluster bomb / shrapnel
subdirectory (computing)
(of a game, movie etc) intended for children (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 子供向け "kodomo-muke")
fibroid tumor of the uterus / hysteromyoma
daughter cell
(anatomy) cervical canal
intrauterine device (IUD)
variant of 仔細|仔细
variant of 仔豬|仔猪
variant of 籽實|籽实


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