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
- —楔子wedge; lynchpin; cotter
- —途子alley; alleyway; crossroads; intersection
- —蹴子ejector (rifle, pistol)
- —鑷子tweezers (esp. in a medical or laboratory setting); forceps
- —櫑子tall container resembling a serving table (used for serving sake, confectionery, etc.)
- —児子child; children
- —末子youngest child
- —代子godchild
- —教子godchild
- —駅子staff at a horse changing station during the ritsuryō period
- —産子offspring (esp. livestock); progeny
- —床子low bench
- —伸子temple (on a loom); tenter
- —栓子embolus
- —蠁子blowfly or green bottle fly larva (oft. used as fishing bait)
- —仏子follower of the Buddha; Buddhist; all Buddha's children; mankind; all living things; Bodhisattva
- —多子large number of children (per family); bearing many children
- —笛子dizi; Chinese bamboo transverse flute
- —転子trochanter
- —種子seed; bija; seed syllable (Sanskrit character representing a Buddha or Bodhisattva)