字 (zi6 | zi4 zi5) : word; glyph

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字

zi6

zi4 zi5

[1] [n] word; letter; character; word; logograph; glyph [2] [v] betroth a girl [3] name or style taken at the age of 20, by which one was sometimes called [4] Chinese character with more than one component, cf. 文

Additional PoS:

Stroke count: 6

Level: 2

Radical: 子 (#39)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

字

Don't confuse with:
子宇

This word has been viewed 23904 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 21st Feb 2010 07:12

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十字 sap6 zi6 shi2 zi4 = a cross

打字 daa2 zi6 da3 zi4 = to type

漢字 hon3 zi6 han4 zi4 = Chinese character

字母 zi6 mou5 zi4 mu3 = letter; alphabet

字典 zi6 din2 zi4 dian3 = dictionary

字型 zi6 jing4 zi4 xing2 = font; typeface

打字機 daa2 zi6 gei1 da3 zi4 ji1 = typewriter

文字 man4 zi6 wen2 zi4 = writing; script

寫字 se2 zi6 xie3 zi4 = to write characters

逐字 zuk6 zi6 = word-for-word; verbatim
See all 323 compounds (CantoDict reports 344 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing 10 of 11 examples containing 字

你打字打得很快呀！國
You type very fast!

而家幾點鐘? 而家係三點三個字。粵
What time is it now? It's a quarter past three.

我寫中文字好慢。粵
I write Chinese characters very slowly.

而家差兩個字七點粵
It's ten to seven now.
[Lit. now different two [counter] five-minutes seven o'clock]

我Ｄ字好難睇咩？粵
Are my (Chinese) characters that hard to read?
[Lit. Me [plural counter] characters very hard read [particle]? D=啲 and is commonly used in Hong Kong.]

你寫字寫得好整齊粵
You have nice handwriting.
[Lit. you write characters write manner very tidy]

在這個環境，這個〝場〞字是個量詞。國
The character "場" is a classifier in this context.
[口語：喺呢個環境，呢個〝場〞字係個量詞。 (The actual context in which this sentence arose was 在還原那場雨, where 場 is a classifier for rain.)]

漢字是歷史上最古老的文字之一，大概四千歲了。國
Chinese characters are one of history's most ancient writing scripts, approximately four thousand years old.

唔好用啲咁僻嘅字眼! 粵
Don't use such uncommon wording!

啲字寫得好四正! 粵
These writings are very neat and tidy.

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Decimal representation of this word: 字
Unicode code for this character: U+5b57 (off-site link)

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