仔 (zī)
Careful; young animal/child.
How 仔 is written
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 亻 — human
- Traditional
- 仔
- Simplified
- 仔 (unchanged)
Components
- 亻 human
- 子 child
仔 has 3 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- zǎi
- variant of 崽[zai3]
- zī
- see 仔肩[zi1 jian1]
- zǐ
- meticulous; (of domestic animals or fowls) young
Common words using 仔
- 仔細 zǐxì
- careful; attentive; cautious
- 牛仔褲 niúzǎikù
- jeans; CL:條|条[tiao2]; also written 牛崽褲|牛崽裤
- 公仔 gōngzǎi
- doll; cuddly toy
- 牛仔 niúzǎi
- cowboy
- 靚仔 liàngzǎi
- handsome young man
- 公仔麵 gōngzǎimiàn
- brand of Hong Kong instant noodles; also used as term for instant noodles in general
- 古惑仔 gǔhuòzǎi
- gangster; hooligan; problem youth
- 打工崽 dǎgōngzǎi
- young household member who goes out to work
- 歌仔戲 gēzǎixì
- type of opera from Taiwan and Fujian
- 氹仔 dàngzǎi
- Taipa, an island of Macau
- 灣仔 wānzǎi
- Wan Chai district of Hong Kong
- 狗仔隊 gǒuzǎiduì
- paparazzi
仔 in a sentence
請仔細檢查你的考卷。
Qǐng zǐxì jiǎnchá nǐ de kǎojuàn.
“Please check your exam paper carefully.”
How common is 仔?
仔 is the 1,570th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 95% of all running text.
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