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字 (zi6) — word; letter; character; word; logograph; glyph in Cantonese

ziˍ₆字
Mandarin Pinyin: zi4

Meaning of 字

nounword; letter; character; word; logograph; glyph
nounChinese character with more than one component, cf. 文
nounbetroth a girl
nounname or style taken at the age of 20, by which one was sometimes called
noun(noun) the number of floor

Example Sentences with 字

你打字打得很快呀！
You type very fast!
漢字是歷史上最古老的文字之一，大概四千歲了。
Chinese characters are one of history's most ancient writing scripts, approximately four thousand years old.
而家幾點鐘? 而家係三點三個字。
What time is it now? It's a quarter past three.
唔好用啲咁僻嘅字眼!
Don't use such uncommon wording!
啲字寫得好四正!
These writings are very neat and tidy.
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Words Containing 字

同音字tung4 jam1 zi6
homonym (character with exactly the same sound)
凸字dat6 zi6
Braille; (also: 點字)
字腳zi6 goek3
serif
四個字sei3 go3 zi6
twenty minutes
古文字gu2 man4 zi6
ancient writing
絕對數字zyut6 deoi3 sou3 zi6
absolute (as opposed to relative) number
人字jan4 zi6
y-shaped; herringbone
粵英字典jyut6 jing1 zi6 din2
a Cantonese-English (character) dictionary
字勻zi6 wan4
generation name
排行字paai4 hang4 zi6
generation name
例字lai6 zi6
example of characters
弄字底lung6 zi6 dai2
Kangxi radical 55 (two hands) (廾)

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