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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
- —唐紙障子sliding door covered with thick patterned paper
- —虫籠格子ultra-fine lattice
- —末子相続ultimogeniture; postremogeniture
- —棹物菓子Japanese sweets in the form of long blocks (e.g. yokan, uiro)
- —半生菓子semiperishable sweets; half-dry confectionery
- —父子相姦paternal incest
- —電子捕獲electron capture
- —担子菌門Basidiomycota (phylum containing mushrooms, puffballs, etc.)
- —子嚢菌門Ascomycota (phylum comprising the sac fungi)
- —子癇前症preeclampsia
- —電子制御electronic control
- —反跳原子recoil atom
- —超原子価hypervalent compound
- —男子生徒schoolboy; male student
- —女子生徒schoolgirl; female student
- —調子こくto be elated; to be excited; to be caught up in the moment; to be carried away; to get cocky
- —原子力村nuclear power village; tight-knit community of legislators, regulators and manufacturers involved in the promotion of nuclear power
- —砂糖菓子candy; sweet; confectionary
- —千本格子lattice of evenly spaced vertical timber bars (used in facades, etc.)
- —子孫繁栄perpetuation of one's descendants