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妻子

qī zǐ 1–3

wife and children

HSK level
HSK 4
HSK 2.0 level 2 · HSK 3.0 level 4
Characters
2
妻 · 子
Syllables
2
qī zǐ
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,187

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 妻qī8 strokesHSK 2wife
  • 子zǐ3 strokesHSK 1offspring, child; fruit, seed of; first earthly branch

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我妻子在家。

    Wǒ qī zi zài jiā

    My wife is at home.

  • 她是我妻子。

    T sh w q zi

    She's my wife.

  • 这是我的妻子。

    Zhè shì wǒ de qī zi

    This is my wife.

  • 这不是我的妻子。

    Zhè bù shì wǒ de qī zi

    That's not my wife.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 妻子. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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