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儿子

ér zi 2–5

son

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 2.0 level 1 · HSK 3.0 level 1
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.

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