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Meanings
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- 1.letter
- 2.symbol
- 3.character
- 4.word
- 5.CL:个[gè]
- 6.courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
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Wiktionary
- 1.letter; symbol; character, especially a Chinese character (Classifier: 個／个 m c; 隻／只 c)
- 2.word; term; wording; diction
- 3.word (natural unit of data)
- 4.handwriting; writing
- 5.courtesy name; Chinese-style name (a name traditionally given to Chinese males at the age of 20 and females at the age of 15)
- 6.to style; to give someone a courtesy name
- 7.style of handwriting; printing type
- 8.(a calligrapher's) calligraphy work
- 9.pronunciation of a character; pronunciation
- 10.written letter; message; correspondence
- 11.receipt; contract; slip
- 12.side of a coin with written characters; tails
- 13.five minutes (derived from the locations of 1 to 12 on a clock face) (Classifier: 個／个 m c; 隻／只 h)
- 14.to give birth to; to deliver a baby; to bring into the world
- 15.to be pregnant; to be carrying a baby
- 16.to be betrothed; to be allowed to marry
- 17.to bring up; to raise; to rear (a child)
- 18.to love; to cherish; to care very much for
- 19.to envy; to be jealous of; to admire
- 20.to educate; to teach; to instruct
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *zlɯs): semantic 宀 (“roof”) + phonetic 子 (OC *ʔslɯʔ, “child”). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsa ~ za (“child; to give birth; to take care; to be kind”). Related to: * 子 (OC *ʔslɯʔ, “child, son”) (also its phonetic component) * 慈 (OC *zɯ, “to be kind, loving”) * 滋 (OC *ʔsɯ, “to nourish, to grow”) * 詞 (OC *ljɯ, “word, term”) * 辭 (OC *ljɯ, “word, from testimony”) Original sense (1): “to become pregnant, to give birth to, to nurture, to love” has essentially become obsolete. The sense (2) “letter, character” is either from a different root or a derivation from the sense “to produce, to generate”. Cognate with Tibetan ཚ་བོ (tsha bo, “nephew”), Tibetan ཚ་རུས (tsha rus, “descendant”), Tibetan བཙའ (btsa', “to give birth to; to guard”), Tibetan མཛའ (mdza', “kind, peaceful, friendly”) (Quan, 1996), Burmese စာ (ca, “writing, letter”).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
這個字很難發音。
This word is difficult to pronounce.
你會寫多少漢字？
How many Chinese characters can you write?
給我一些紙來寫字。
Give me some paper to write on.
這個字是什麼意思?
What's the meaning of this word?
你在哪裡學會識字的？
Where did you learn to read?
這個字的意思是什麼？
What's the meaning of this word?
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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