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子 kanji
child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 3
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
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On readings
シスツ
Kun readings
こ-こね
Words with 子
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —母子年金widowed mother's allowance
- —母子家庭single-mother household; fatherless family
- —記憶素子(computer) storage cell; storage element
- —担子菌類basidiomycetes
- —帽子掛けhat rack; hat stand; hat peg
- —量子力学quantum mechanics
- —千鳥格子hound's-tooth check
- —裸子植物gymnosperm
- —子々孫々one's descendants; one's offspring; posterity
- —子宮後屈retroversion of the uterus; tipped uterus
- —子宮筋腫fibroid; uterine myoma
- —子宮がんuterine cancer
- —構成分子components
- —腰高障子tall-paneled sliding door
- —立太子式investiture of the Crown Prince
- —癌遺伝子oncogene
- —雪見障子shoji with a glass bottom half (for snow viewing)
- —調子付くto warm up to; to become enthusiastic about; to be elated
- —菓子折りbox of sweets (usu. given as a gift)
- —障子の腰lower part of a shoji (paper sliding-door)