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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 子女

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
子女 zǐ nǚ - children; sons and daughters

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- 3 10,898 3,795 5,491

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- 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[wu3deng3 jue2wei4]
- ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)
- subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
zi- (noun suffix)
- female
- woman
- daughter
- old variant of 汝[ru3]

Other Words Containing 子女

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
子女 - 3 10,898 3,795 5,491
独生子女 - - 53,208 18,130 24,536