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- son
- child
- seed
- egg
- small thing
- 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat
- viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
- ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)
- subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
- Master (old form of address for teachers, scholars)
- (used sarcastically) pedant
Trad. 子產
- Zi Chan (?-522 BC), statesman and philosopher during the Spring and Autumn period
- raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides)
- raccoon of North China, Korea and Japan (Japanese: tanuki)
- also called 狸
- traditional one-month confinement period following childbirth; puerperium
- intelligence gatherer
- spy
- detective
- scout
- sound (medical instrument)
- long and narrow probing and sampling utensil
- trace
- impression (e.g. footprint)
- abbr. of 印子錢|印子钱[yin4 zi5 qian2], usury
- a kind of shuttlecock used to play games in which it is kept in the air without using the hands, primarily by kicking
- game played with such a shuttlecock
Trad. 子貢
- Zi Gong or Duanmu Ci 端木賜|端木赐[Duan1 mu4 Ci4] (520 BC-), disciple of Confucius
- Zi Lu (542-480 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3], also known as Ji Lu 季路[Ji4 Lu4]
- watchman's clapper
- wooden clappers with bars of unequal length
- abbr. for 梆子腔[bang1 zi5 qiang1]
- (dialect) form of address for one's wife
- polite form of address for a woman
- devil (derog. term for foreign invaders)
- (esp. during resistance against Japanese aggression 1931–1945) Jap; Nip
- Mozi (c. 470–391 BC), founder of the Mohist School 墨家[Mo4 jia1], which flourished during the Warring States period (475–220 BC)
Trad. 報子
- bearer of good news (esp. announcing success in imperial examinations)
- house
- building (single- or two-story)
- apartment
- room
- CL:棟|栋[dong4],幢[zhuang4],座[zuo4],套[tao4],間|间[jian1]
- Chinese pearleaf crabapple (Malus asiatica)
- (Internet slang) tits (pun on 奶子[nai3 zi5])
- Zengzi (505-435 BC), student of Confucius, presumed editor or author of Confucian classic the Great Learning 大學|大学[Da4 xue2]
Trad. 辮子
- plait
- braid
- pigtail
- a mistake or shortcoming that may be exploited by an opponent
- handle
- CL:根[gen1],條|条[tiao2]
- Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3]
- Jizi, legendary sage from end of Shang dynasty (c. 1100 BC), said to have opposed the tyrant Zhou 紂|纣[Zhou4], then ruled ancient Korea in the Zhou 周[Zhou1] dynasty
- sapling; seedling; sprout; (esp.) rice seedling
- stem; stalk; vine
- baby livestock; fry
- (dialect) (derog.) suffix used to indicate a type of person
Trad. 門子
- door
- doorman (old)
- hanger-on of an aristocrat
- social influence
- pull
- classifier for relatives, marriages etc
- Puzi or Putzu City in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县[Jia1 yi4 Xian4], west Taiwan
Trad. 個子
- stature; height; size (of a person or object)
- (agriculture) bundle of cereal stalks tied together