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
- —子癇eclampsia
- —子嚢ascus; seed pod
- —季子last child
- —梢子boatman
- —晶子crystallite
- —瞳子pupil (of the eye)
- —孟子Mencius (372-289 BCE); Mengzi; Mencius (one of the Four Books)
- —少子small number of children (per family); bearing few children; youngest child (in the family)
- —単子monad
- —瓶子earthenware pot (used as a decanter); jar; jug
- —子院sub-temple
- —孫子Sun Tzu (Chinese military strategist; 544?-496 BCE); The Art of War (military text by Sun Tzu; ca. 5th century BCE); Sun Bin Bing Fa (military text by Sun Bin)
- —鋩子the edge at the very tip of a sword
- —鎮子ornamental weights used to keep curtains and the like from blowing around in the wind
- —娘子girl; daughter; woman; lady; (another's) wife
- —小子little child; male between 4 and 16 years old (ritsuryō period); pupil; disciple; follower; I; me; my humble self; you
- —付子dried aconite root
- —沈子weight (of a fishing net); sinker (on a fishing line)
- —地子type of land rent paid by farmers
- —燕子swallow