子 in English

Measure word

• 房 fáng house; room; CL:間|间[jian1]; branch of an extended family; classifier for family members (or concubines) attested in use
• 辈 bèi lifetime; generation; group of people; class; classifier for generations; (literary) classifier for people attested in use
• 份 fèn classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc; variant of 分[fen4] attested in use
• 位 wèi position; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2... attested in use
• 句 jù sentence; clause; phrase; classifier for phrases or lines of verse attested in use
• 阵 zhèn disposition of troops; wave; spate; burst; spell; short period of time; classifier for events or states of short... attested in use

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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 西晉
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Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• "亲爱的, 上床吧。" "不, 还不行。我在Tatoeba上还必须翻译一些句子。"

  "Honey, come to bed." "No, not yet. I still have to translate some sentences on Tatoeba."

• "那個女孩是誰？" "那是惠子。"

  "Who is that girl?" "That's Keiko."

• “你有没有兄弟姐妹？”　“没有，我是个独生子女。”

  "Do you have any siblings?" "No, I'm an only child."

• “你的汽车是什么牌子的？”“是一辆福特。”

  "What make is your car?" "It is a Ford."

• “那是什么？”“是个桃子。”

  "What's that?" "This is a peach."

• 50年代，芬兰人被认为是世界上饮食最不健康的例子。

  In the 1950's, the Finns were cited as having one of the least healthy diets in the world.

• 911事件让世人震惊，全球所有的政治家都一致谴责恐怖分子的这一应受人斥责的行径。

  Shocked by the events of September 11th, politicians all over the world condemned the terrorists of their reprehensible deed.

• Fabien有很多好点子。

  Fabien has a lot of good ideas.

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