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孩子

hái zi 2–5

child

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 2.0 level 2 · HSK 3.0 level 1
Characters
2
孩 · 子
Syllables
2
hái zi
Frequency
Very common
corpus count 207

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 孩hái9 strokesHSK 1baby, child; children
  • 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

  • 他没有孩子。

    Tā méi yǒu hái zi

    He has no children.

  • 我没有孩子。

    Wǒ méi yǒu hái zi

    I don't have any children.

  • 他们是孩子。

    Tā men shì hái zi

    They're kids.

  • 她们是孩子。

    Tā men shì hái zi

    They're kids.

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 孩子. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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