儿子
ér zi 2–5
son
- Characters
- 2
- 儿 · 子
- Syllables
- 2
- ér zi
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 665
Part of speech: n
Character by character
- 儿ér2 strokesHSK 1 traditional 兒son, child; Kangxi radical 10
- 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
你也是,儿子!
Nǐ yě shì ér zi
You are too, son!
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 儿子. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 孩子hái ziHSK 1
child
- 子zǐHSK 1
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 位; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; sub-
- 女儿nǚ érHSK 1
daughter
- 房子fáng ziHSK 1
house; building (single- or two-story); apartment; room
- 样子yàng ziHSK 2
appearance; manner; pattern; model
- 妻子qī zǐHSK 4
wife and children
- 日子rì ziHSK 2
day; a (calendar) date; days of one's life
- 儿童ér tóngHSK 4
child
- 电子diàn zǐ
electronic; electron (particle physics)
- 一会儿yī huì rHSK 1
a moment; a while; in a moment; now...now...; also pr. [yī huǐ r]
- 女子nǚ zǐHSK 3
woman; female
- 一辈子yī bèi ziHSK 5
(for) a lifetime
- 男子nán zǐHSK 3
a man; a male
- 这儿zhè rHSK 1
here
- 哪儿nǎ rHSK 1
where?; wherever; anywhere; somewhere; (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...?
- 肚子dù ziHSK 4
belly; abdomen; stomach
- 脑子nǎo ziHSK 5
brains; mind
- 婴儿yīng érHSK 7
infant; baby; lead (Pb)
- 那儿nà rHSK 1
there
- 鼻子bí ziHSK 5
nose
- 帽子mào ziHSK 4
hat; cap; (fig.) label; bad name
- 脖子bó ziHSK 7
neck
- 王子wáng zǐHSK 6
prince; son of a king
- 桌子zhuō ziHSK 1
table; desk