本子

Character by character

• 本běn5 strokesHSK 1root, origin, source; basis
• 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.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 本子. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 孩子hái ziHSK 1

  child

• 本běnHSK 1

  root; stem; origin; source; this; the current; original; inherent; originally; classifier for books, periodicals, files etc

• 根本gēn běnHSK 3

  fundamental; basic; root; simply; absolutely (not); (not) at all

• 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-

• 儿子ér ziHSK 1

  son

• 房子fáng ziHSK 1

  house; building (single- or two-story); apartment; room

• 本来běn láiHSK 3

  original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course

• 基本jī běnHSK 3

  basic; fundamental; main; elementary

• 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

• 电子diàn zǐ

  electronic; electron (particle physics)

• 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

• 本身běn shēnHSK 6

  itself; in itself; per se

• 本人běn rénHSK 5

  I; me; myself; oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned

• 肚子dù ziHSK 4

  belly; abdomen; stomach

• 脑子nǎo ziHSK 5

  brains; mind

• 原本yuán běnHSK 7

  originally; original

• 本地běn dìHSK 6

  local; this locality

• 鼻子bí ziHSK 5

  nose

• 帽子mào ziHSK 4

  hat; cap; (fig.) label; bad name

• 脖子bó ziHSK 7

  neck