child

Origin & mnemonic

This radical originates from a pictograph in oracle-bone script, depicting the shape of a baby or small child with a large head and slender body.

Mnemonic: The shape ⼦ resembles a tiny child with a round head larger than its thin body.

• 子zǐ🔊

  son

  HSK 1

  3 strokes

• 孑jié🔊

  (literary) lonely; all alone

  3 strokes

• 孓jué🔊

  used in 孑孓[jie2 jue2]

  3 strokes

• 孔kǒng🔊

  hole

  4 strokes

• 孕yùn🔊

  pregnant

  5 strokes

• 字zì🔊

  letter

  HSK 1

  6 strokes

• 存cún🔊

  to exist

  HSK 3

  6 strokes

• 孙sūn🔊

  grandson

  6 strokes

• 孖zī🔊

  twins

  6 strokes

• 孚fú🔊

  to trust

  7 strokes

• 孛bèi🔊

  comet

  7 strokes

• 孜zī🔊

  used in 孜孜[zi1 zi1]

  7 strokes

• 孝xiào🔊

  filial piety or obedience

  7 strokes

• 学xué🔊

  to learn

  HSK 1

  8 strokes

• 季jì🔊

  season

  HSK 4

  8 strokes

• 孤gū🔊

  lone

  8 strokes

• 孟mèng🔊

  first month of a season

  8 strokes

• 孢bāo🔊

  spore

  8 strokes

• 孥nú🔊

  child

  8 strokes

• 孩hái🔊

  (bound form) child

  9 strokes

• 孨zhuǎn🔊

  (Internet slang) the three 子's that symbolize success in life: a house, a car and a wife (房子[fang2 zi5], 車子|车子[che1 zi5] and 妻子[qi1 zi5])

  9 strokes

• 孪luán🔊

  twins

  9 strokes

• 𡥧lái🔊

  last

  9 strokes

• 孬nāo🔊

  (dialect) contracted form of 不好[bu4 hao3]

  10 strokes

• 孭miē🔊

  to carry on the back or shoulders (Cantonese)

  10 strokes

• 孰shú🔊

  who

  11 strokes

• 㝄chún🔊

  old variant of 純|纯[chun2]

  12 strokes

• 孱chán🔊

  (bound form) weak; feeble

  12 strokes

• 孳zī🔊

  industrious

  12 strokes

• 孶zī🔊

  old variant of 孳[zi1]

  13 strokes

• 孵fū🔊

  breeding

  14 strokes

• 㝇chún🔊

  old variant of 鶉|鹑[chun2]

  16 strokes

• 孺rú🔊

  child

  17 strokes

• 孽niè🔊

  variant of 孽[nie4]

  19 strokes