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杯子

bēi zi 1–5

cup; glass

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 2.0 level 1 · HSK 3.0 level 1
Characters
2
杯 · 子
Syllables
2
bēi zi
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 6,162

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 杯bēi8 strokesHSK 1cup, glass
  • 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

  • 杯子里有水。

    Bēi zi lǐ yǒu shuǐ

    There is water in the glass.

  • 那个杯子是我的。

    Nà ge bēi zi shì wǒ de

    That cup is mine.

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

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