Words starting with the character 子: descendant, bullet, zifang, zibu, nephew, zimu, zikou, zicheng, son-in-law
Pinyin: zǐ?
Radical: Zi
Strokes: 3
Interpretation:
1. In ancient times, it refers to children, but now it specifically refers to son: ~ female. ~Sun. ~ Heir. ~Brother (younger generation, young man).
2. Fruits and seeds of plants: vegetables~. Melon~er. ~ Real.
3. Animal eggs: fish~. Silkworm~.
4. Young, small: ~ chicken. ~Animal. ~City.
5. Small and hard granular things: ~ bomb (dàn). Chess~er.
6. Opposite of "mother": ~ gold (interest). ~Female button. ~ sound (consonant).
7. The name for people: male~. Wife ~. Scholar ~ (scholar). Boat ~ (Boatman). Only~.
8. The honorific title for people in ancient times; called teacher or a moral and knowledgeable person: Kong~. Pre-Qin Zhu~.
9. The first of the earthly branches, the rat: ~ Chou Yinmao (a metaphor for the orderly hierarchy or the order of things).
10. Used for timing: ~ hour (11 to 1 o'clock at night). ~ Night (late night).
11. The fourth of the five feudal titles: ~jue.
12. Appended to nouns, verbs, and adjectives, it has a nominal character (pronounced softly): flag ~. Chaos~. Fat~.
13. Individual quantifier suffixes (pronounced softly): Knocked twice on the door.
14. Surname. Extended information
Evolution of Chinese characters:
Antonyms: female, mother, father
Explanation of related words:
1. Descendants [zǐ sūn]?
Sons and grandsons generally refer to future generations: ~ ten thousand generations. Unworthy~. Yanhuang~.
2. Bullet [zǐ dàn]?
The general name for bullets.
3. nephew [zǐ zhí]?
The collective name for sons and nephews.
4. Cotyledons [zǐ yè]
One of the components of the seed plant embryo, it is the vegetative organ during seed germination. The embryo of monocots has only one cotyledon, the embryo of dicots has one pair of cotyledons, and the embryo of gymnosperms has two or more cotyledons.
5. Ovary [zǐ fáng]?
The enlarged part of the base of the pistil in the flower. There are ovules inside. After fertilization, the ovary or other parts of the flower develop into fruits.