子

child; a noun ending (桌子 table)

No. 66 most used · 0.40% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 251.

Also read: zǐ 子女

How it's built

A single shape: nothing smaller to learn.

A way to remember it

A baby with its arms out and its legs wrapped.

Words

• 孩子

  hái zi

  child
• 儿子

  ér zi

  son
• 房子

  fáng zi

  house; building (single- or two-story); apartment
• 妻子

  qī zi

  wife
• 样子

  yàng zi

  appearance; manner; pattern
• 案子

  àn zi

  long table; counter; (coll.) case (criminal, medical etc); matter; project; job

Sentences

• 今天是个好日子。

  jīn tiān shì gè hǎo rì zi

  Today is a good day.
• 今天是什么日子？

  jīn tiān shì shén me rì zi

  What day is it today?
• 他在院子里等我。

  tā zài yuàn zi lǐ děng wǒ

  He is waiting for me in the yard.
• 多么可爱的女子！

  duō me kě ài de nǚ zǐ

  What a pretty girl!

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.