Kanji1 / 3
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)
On readings
シスツ
Kun readings
こ-こね
Words with 子
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —才子talented man; clever man
- —嗣子heir
- —子音consonant
- —次子the next child; second child
- —杓子bamboo ladle
- —庶子illegitimate child
- —厨子miniature shrine with double doors (used to store important Buddhist items such as sutras, etc.); cabinet with double doors (used by the nobility to store books, etc.); carved and decorated stone container for storing the bones of one's ancestors (in Okinawa)
- —世子heir; successor
- —正子midnight
- —端子terminal; pin (on a semiconductor or microcontroller); port (e.g. LAN port)
- —丁子clove (Syzygium aromaticum)
- —天子emperor; ruler (with a heavenly mandate); heavenly being; celestial being
- —童子boy; kid; child
- —夫子teacher; wise man; sage; master; Confucius; the person concerned; you; he; she
- —亡子dead child
- —猶子nephew (like a son); another child considered as one's own
- —量子quantum
- —倚子traditional square chair with armrests and a torii-shaped back (used by the emperor, etc. during ceremonies)
- —椰子palm tree (any tree of family Arecaceae)
- —眸子pupil (of the eye)