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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
- —夫婦養子adopting a married couple; married couple adopted into the family
- —不純分子dissident element (e.g. in a political party); discontented element
- —不平分子discontented element; discontented (grumbling) member
- —末期養子deathbed adoption of a successor (to prevent extinction of the family line); person adopted by someone on his deathbed
- —乱臣賊子rebels against one's lord and one's parents; rebellious (treacherous) subject; traitor
- —反逆分子renegade; rebellious elements
- —腐敗分子corrupt elements
- —二次粒子secondary particle
- —原子番号atomic number
- —練り辛子mustard paste; English mustard
- —帳場格子short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store
- —母子手帳maternal and child health notebook; maternity health record book
- —杓子果報coming by ample servings of delicious food; being blessed with good fortune
- —電子投票electronic voting; e-voting
- —焼き菓子baked sweets
- —女子割礼female genital cutting; female genital mutilation; female circumcision
- —子宮内膜endometrium
- —タウ粒子tauon; tau particle; tau lepton
- —原子時計atomic clock
- —致死因子lethal factor; lethal gene