字 zì
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zì
noun
letter; symbol; character
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: For example, 白纸写黑字 'to write black characters on white paper [to clearly document the matter]' (Guoyu '字' n 1; Suyu. p. 22; Unihan '字'; XHZD '字' 1) -
zì
proper noun
Zi
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (Guoyu '字' n 5) -
zì
verb
to love
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In this sense 字 is similar in meaning to 爱 (Guoyu '字' v 3) -
zì
verb
to teach; to educate
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Education
Notes: In this sense 字 is similar in meaning to 教育 (Guoyu '字' v 2) -
zì
verb
to be allowed to marry
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In this sense 字 is similar in meaning to 许嫁 (Guoyu '字' v 1; XHZD '字' 7) -
zì
noun
courtesy name; style name; scholarly or literary name
Domain: History 历史 , Subdomain: China
Notes: In this sense 字 is similar in meaning to 表字 (Guoyu '字' n 2; XHZD '字' 5) -
zì
noun
diction; wording
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In this sense 字 is similar in meaning to 字眼. -
zì
noun
handwriting
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Writing
Notes: In this sense 字 is similar in meaning to 字迹 -
zì
noun
calligraphy; a work of calligraphy
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Art
Notes: In this sense 字 is similar in meaning to 书法 (XHZD '字' 4) -
zì
noun
a written pledge; a letter; a contract
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Writing
Notes: In this sense 字 is similar in meaning to 书信 (Guoyu '字' n 3; XHZD '字' 6) -
zì
noun
a font; a calligraphic style
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Art
Notes: In this sense 字 is similar in meaning to 字体 (XHZD '字' 3) -
zì
noun
the phonetic value of a character; the pronunciation of a character
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In this sense 字 is similar in meaning to 字音 (Guoyu '字' n 4; XHZD '字' 2)
Contained in
- 现代汉语常用字表(現代漢語常用字表) Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese
- 斜体字(斜體字) italic letter; slanting typeface
- 字根通用码(字根通用碼) common coding for components of Chinese character
- 一字不落 without missing a word
- 别字(別字) a mispronounced or wrongly written character ; an alternative name
- 签字费(簽字費) signing bonus; sign-on bonus
- 名字 full name ; name ; fame and prestige
- 草字 cursive writing
- 字体(字體) calligraphic style; typeface ; font
- 一字褒贬(一字褒貶) dispensing praise or blame with a single word; concise and powerful style
- 按码索字(按碼索字) lookup characters according to numbers
- 字根 component of Chinese character
- 同字框 name of tongzi radical
- 炼字(煉字) to craft one's words
- 竹字头(竹字頭) name of alternate form of Kangxi radical 118
- 东方六国文字(东方六國文字) Scripts of the Six States period
- 首字母拚音词(首字母拚音詞) acronym
- 国字(國字) Chinese character (Hanzi); the native script used to write a nation's language
- 六国文字(六國文字) Scripts of the Six States period
- 字义(字義) the meaning of characters
- 正字法 orthography
- 纯文字页(純文字頁) text-only webpage
- 组字(組字) word formation
- 测字(測字) fortune associated with a character
- 指事字 ideogram (one of the Six Methods of forming Chinese characters); Chinese character indicating an idea, such as up and down
- 逐字逐句 literal; word by word and phrase by phrase
- 悉昙文字(悉曇文字) Siddham alphabet; Siddham script
- 字帖 copybook; a book for copying calligraphy
- 丁字步 T-step
- 尤字旁 name of Kangxi radical 43
- 数字图书馆(數字圖書館) digital library
- 繁体字(繁體字) traditional Chinese characters
- 罗马字(羅馬字) the Latin alphabet
- 独体字(獨體字) characters composed of a single radical
- 十字形 a cruciform; a cross shape
- 字字珠玑(字字珠璣) writing like an array of different kinds of peals
- 冬字头(冬字頭) name of walk slowly component in Chinese characters
- 大字本 large print edition
- 写字(寫字) to write characters
Also contained in
字母系统 、 万亿字节 、 三字禅 、 金字塔 、 字频率 、 兆字节 、 一字禅 、 金字 、 个人数字助理 、 代字 、 拼音文字 、 数字鸿沟
Word is mentioned most frequently in
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- 卷十八 Scroll 18 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 337
- 卷七十二下 表第十二下 宰相世系二下 Volume 72c Tables 16: Chancellors Genealogy 2c New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 285
- 卷十六 Scroll 16 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 277
- 卷五 Scroll 5 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 266
- 卷七十一下 表第十一下 宰相世系一下 Volume 71b Tables 13: Chancellors Genealogy 1b New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 259
- 卷七十五下 表第十五下 宰相世系五下 Volume 75b Tables 22: Chancellors Genealogy 5b New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 246
- 卷七十二上 表第十二上 宰相世系二上 Volume 72a Tables 14: Chancellors Genealogy 2a New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 246
- 卷十七 Scroll 17 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 215
- 卷六 Scroll 6 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 210
- 卷七十一上 表第十一上 宰相世系一上 Volume 71a Tables 12: Chancellors Genealogy 1a New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 209
Collocations
- 字子 (字子) 字子魚 — Xunzi 荀子, 不苟篇第三 Chapter 3: Nothing Carelessly — count: 61
- 称字 (稱字) 曷為稱字 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 5
- 字小 (字小) 字小之難 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 4
- 祖字 (祖字) 秦祖字子南 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《仲尼弟子列傳》 Biographies of the disciples of Zhongni — count: 2
- 二十一字 (二十一字) 凡補一千一百二十一字 — Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋繁露, Preface — count: 2
- 僞字 (僞字) 其辨白僞字甚明 — Xunzi 荀子, 唐楊倞注 Notes by Yang Jing of Tang — count: 2
- 五字 (五字) 官名更印章以五字 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《孝武本紀》 Annals of the Xiaowu Emperor — count: 2
- 字子思 (字子思) 字子思 — Xunzi 荀子, 非十二子篇第六 Chapter 6: Against the Twelve Masters — count: 2
- 字皙 (字皙) 曾蒧字皙 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《仲尼弟子列傳》 Biographies of the disciples of Zhongni — count: 2
- 字仲尼 (字仲尼) 曰雲姓孔而字仲尼 — Exemplary Figures 法言, 卷二 吾子 Chapter 2: Our Teachers — count: 2