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
- —プレゼンテーションコンテキスト識別子presentation context identifier
- —君子は周して比せず小人は比して周せずa wise man keeps wide company; a fool joins a clique
- —礙子insulator
- —草子written work (esp. a bound text, as opposed to a scroll); a text written entirely in kana; graphic novel (esp. one created between the 12th and 19th centuries); notebook (for practicing kana, drawing pictures, etc.); rough draft
- —師子lion; left-hand (stone) guardian lion-dog at a Shinto shrine
- —廚子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)
- —楊子toothpick; skewer (used to cut and hold sweets served at a tea ceremony); toothbrush (orig. made from a thin willow branch frayed at one end)
- —梨子nashi (esp. Pyrus pyrifolia); Japanese pear; Asian pear
- —豎子child; young lad; stripling; greenhorn; inexperienced person
- —竪子child; young lad; stripling; greenhorn; inexperienced person
- —付子sumac gallnut
- —附子sumac gallnut
- —雉子green pheasant (Phasianus versicolor); Japanese green pheasant
- —游子wanderer; traveller; traveler
- —嬢子girl; daughter; woman; lady; (another's) wife
- —附子dried aconite root
- —燕子swallow chick
- —図子alley; alleyway; crossroads; intersection
- —罍子tall container resembling a serving table (used for serving sake, confectionery, etc.)
- —厚子elm bark clothes traditionally worn by the Ainu; elm bark textile