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Definitions
- 1. letter
- 2. symbol
- 3. character
- 4. word
- 5. courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
Example Sentences
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Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 字
indexing system for Chinese characters in a dictionary
character code
letter (of the alphabet)
Zihui, Chinese character dictionary with 33,179 entries, released in 17th century
lookup table for Chinese character based on radical and stroke count
cross
I-beam
text file
to sign (one's name)
literate
crusaders
prefix
weighing every word
China Japan Korea (CJK) unified ideographs
character with opposite meaning
diction; enunciation
name (of a person or thing)
(financial) deficit
movable type
Red Cross
illiterate
phono-semantic compound character
digital navigation equipment
command name
mispronounced or wrongly written character
intoeing
name of \tiger\ radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 141)
T-shaped
digital communications
lowercase (letters)
to spell
italic letter
exception(s)
Unihan
to make the sign of the cross
expert on writing systems
numeral
(orthography) consistent words (e.g. \dean\, \bean\, and \lean\, where \-ean\ is pronounced the same in each case)
to write an inscription (poem, remark, autograph etc)
betrothed
to practice writing characters
between the words and the lines (idiom); implied meaning
name of \walk slowly\ component 夂[zhǐ] in Chinese characters
big-character poster
Chinese characters
nonstandard form of a Chinese character
totally illiterate
digital clock
to have one's fortune read
to write from memory
literal
font
gigabyte (2^30 or approximately a billion bytes)
original form of a Chinese character
text-only webpage
handwriting
lit. there is a knife above the character for lust
serif
ByteDance, Beijing-based Internet technology company, founded in 2012
the character 8 or 八
digital subscriber line (DSL)
Vietnam characters (like Chinese characters but native to Vietnam)
crosshairs
tic-tac-toe
piece of paper with short note
digital signal
to have difficulty remembering how to write Chinese characters
wastepaper basket
word formation
word for word
office building
signatory
caption
(printing) type; movable letters
bitmap font (computer)
braille typewriter
universal character set UCS
Japanese-style emoticon, e.g. (⇀‸↼‶)
hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet
Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (second round of simplified Chinese characters, proposed in 1977 and retracted in 1986)
Cruciferae or Brassicaceae (taxonomic family including Brassica etc whose flowers have a cross of 4 petals)
word that contains one or more letters of an alphabet (e.g. HSK, PK, WTO, PO文, PM2.5, γ射線|γ射线[γ shè xiàn])
shape resembling the character 八 or 8
teleprompter
high definition digital television
combined ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters)
T-girder
loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters)
(idiom) to say not a single word about it
initial
kilobyte
capital letters
downward-facing dog (yoga pose)
glyph
turnstile
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) (computing)
look-up method for Chinese characters
to tattoo
alphabetical order
the six-syllable Sanskrit mantra of Avalokiteshvara bodhisattva (i.e. om mani padme hum)
one's birth data for astrological purposes, combined from year, month, day, hour, heavenly trunk and earthly branch
to not mention a single word (about sth) (idiom)
multibyte
to learn to read
ideograph
(numeric, data) field
bow legs
literate
crossword
absolute (as opposed to relative) number
digital network
Zilin, Chinese character dictionary with 12,824 entries from ca. 400 AD
character (computing)
common coding for components of Chinese character
name of the radical 冂[jiōng] in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 13)
hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet; Korean letters
(orthography) inconsistent words (e.g. \through\, \bough\ and \rough\, where \-ough\ is not pronounced the same in each case)
character set
to bite words and chew characters (idiom); punctilious about minutiae of wording
string (computing)
I-beam
written pledge
writing tablet
thirty six initial consonants of Song phonetic theory
look-up method for Chinese characters
digital television
sloping eyebrows, formed like character for \eight\",2025-02-14 13:18:20,2025-02-14 13:18:20 46035,30970,splayfoot,2025-02-14 13:18:20,2025-02-14 13:18:20 46036,30971,lit. not even the first stroke of the character 八[bā] has been written (idiom),2025-02-14 13:18:20,2025-02-14 13:18:20 46037,30971,fig. things have not even gotten started yet; nothing tangible has come of one's plans yet,2025-02-14 13:18:20,2025-02-14 13:18:20 46038,30972,mustache shaped like character 八,2025-02-14 13:18:20,2025-02-14 13:18:20 46039,30973,mustache shaped like character 八,2025-02-14 13:18:20,2025-02-14 13:18:20 46040,30974,Ba Jia Jiang
digital clock
(last line of the poem 聲聲慢|声声慢[shēng shēng màn] by Song poet Li Qingzhao 李清照[lǐ qīng zhào])
shinjitai, simplified Japanese character used since 1946
literary inquisition
obscure or archaic character
to enunciate beautifully (in speaking or singing) (idiom)
character serving as sound value of another character
(written) in black and white
Arabic numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
pyramid (building or structure)
block (of data)
(cognitive psychology) probe letter
character book (i.e. school primer)
transfer character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters)
V-shape; chevron; herringbone
hyphen
copybook (for calligraphy)
phonetic value of a character
Z-shaped; zigzag
an apostrophe (punct.)
phonetic letters
ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters)
the strokes of a character
tone of a character
shallow orthography (governed by simple rules)
(astronomy) the Southern Cross
Standard Interchange Code for Generally Used Chinese Characters, a character encoding standard of Taiwan 1986-1992, aka CNS 11643-1986, where CNS stands for Chinese National Standard
character having several readings and meanings
Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 詞典|词典[cí diǎn], which has entries for words of one or more characters)
typist
letter puzzle
the Crusades
(computing) escape character
nonstandard form of a Chinese character
Latin alphabet
braille
to measure one's words
component of a Chinese character
phonetic loan character
signing bonus
fortune telling by unpicking Chinese characters
cross-stitch
number of written characters; number of words; word count
character with two or more readings
to correct an erroneously written character
unique compound
T-step (basic dance position, with the feet forming a T shape)
single-component character
felt-tip pen
bad luck
non-Latin characters
rune
swung dash
T-junction
keyword
square face
optical character recognition (OCR)
everyday words
braille
first letter of a word or serial number
Shuowen Jiezi, the original Han dynasty Chinese character dictionary with 10,516 entries, authored by Xu Shen 許慎|许慎[xǔ shèn] in 2nd century
crossroads
Chinese character (Hanzi)
calligraphic style
each word is a teardrop (idiom)
kyujitai, traditional Japanese character used before 1946
numeral
non-numeric
cuneiform (Babylonian script)
character with two or more readings
in a row
the alphabet
orthography
initial letters
character size
Hong Kong Red Cross
digital nomad
phonetic alphabet
words
debt-ridden
Three Character Classic, 13th century reading primer consisting of Confucian tenets in lines of 3 characters
stone tablet without inscription
T-square
word processing
to pronounce (clearly or otherwise)
acronym
(computing) byte
(typography) ligature
a Chinese character formed by combining existing elements - i.e. a combined ideogram 會意|会意 or radical plus phonetic 形聲|形声
delaying tactics
flip-flops
new character (in textbook)
splayed feet
zigzag road
erroneous character
simplified Chinese character
synonym
Phillips screwdriver (i.e. with cross slit)
16-character formula, esp. Mao Zedong's mantra on guerrilla warfare: 敵進我退，敵駐我擾，敵疲我打，敵退我追|敌进我退，敌驻我扰，敌疲我打，敌退我追[dí jìn wǒ tuì , dí zhù wǒ rǎo , dí pí wǒ dǎ , dí tuì wǒ zhuī] when the enemy advances we retreat; when the enemy makes camp we harass; when the enemy is exhausted we fight; and when the enemy retreats we pursue
coded character set
to be fastidious about phrasing, diction, or choice of words
text only (webpage)
character set (e.g. ASCII 美國資訊交換標準碼|美国资讯交换标准码 or Unicode 統一碼|统一码)
ancient character
wording
alphanumeric code
the Crusades
a policy expressed as an eight-character slogan
nonstandard or corrupted form of a Chinese character
to have bad luck
simplified Chinese character, as opposed to traditional Chinese character 繁體字|繁体字[fán tǐ zì]
obscenity
Chinese character
shop, firm, or brand of merchandise with a long-established reputation
to create Chinese characters
familiar words
calligraphic style of Chinese characters
spelling book
etymology (of a non-Chinese word)
radical 匚[fāng] (Kangxi radical 22)
\top of 左 character\ component in Chinese characters
to craft one's words
numeral
reform of the writing system
to type
incorrectly written or mispronounced characters
crossword
megabyte (2^20 or approximately a million bytes)
see 字紙簍|字纸篓[zì zhǐ lǒu]
like-named
literacy rate
digital currency
see 一字不漏[yī zì bù lòu]
meaning of a character
byte count
every word a gem (idiom); magnificent writing
crucifiction
digital circuit
without missing a word
to practice writing characters
the Latin alphabet
to use letters
simplified character
see 注音符號|注音符号[zhù yīn fú hào]
to digitize
model or template character
stem compound
personal digital assistant (PDA)
one who can correct a misread or misspelt character and thus be your master
divination based on the eight characters of one's birth date
philology
thong (underwear)
numerology
literally
sans serif (typography)
headband
largest typeface
dead language
acronym
font weight
hyphen
cruciform
pickaxe
Roman letters
incorrect character
the Kangxi Dictionary, named after the Kangxi Emperor, who in 1710 ordered its compilation, containing 47,035 single-character entries
brief note
alphabet
the Rosicrucian order (masonic order)
standard form of a Chinese character
paleography
T-account (accounting)
hyphen (punct.)
combination lock
writing desk
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) (computing)
Chinese character that is pronounced the same (as another character)
dispensing praise or blame with a single word (idiom)
walking dictionary
Zhonghua Zihai, the most comprehensive Chinese character dictionary with 85,568 entries, compiled in 1994
regular script (Chinese calligraphic style)
wrongly written or mispronounced character
cross road
printing with movable type
Hanyu Da Zidian, one of the most comprehensive Chinese character dictionaries with 54,678 (and later 60,370) entries, first published between 1986-1990
to treasure written material as a cultural resource (idiom)
typewriter
single Chinese character
pictogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters)
name of \cliff\ 厂 radical in simplified Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 27)
literal; word for word
literary name (an alternative name of a person stressing a moral principle)
lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八[bā] (idiom)
code name
hammer pick
Cyrillic alphabet
Gwoyeu Romatzyh, a romanization system for Chinese devised by Y.R. Chao and others in 1925-26
digital frequency sharing
thong (underwear)
Renzidong palaeolithic archaeological site at Fanchang 繁昌[fán chāng], Anhui
word index (of a dictionary)
character set
five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983
letters or words
\top of 青 character\ component in Chinese characters
step with feet splayed outwards
grapheme
emoji
traditional Chinese character
Greek alphabet
pictogram
see 通假字[tōng jiǎ zì]
Roman numerals
Thousand Character Classic, 6th century poem used as a traditional reading primer
non-signatory
(literary) (of a young lady) to be awaiting betrothal
obscure word
(in praise of a piece of writing or calligraphy) each character is perfect
Union Jack (flag of the United Kingdom)
character
Zhengzitong, Chinese character dictionary with 33,549 entries, edited by Ming scholar Zhang Zilie 張自烈|张自烈[zhāng zì liè] in 17th century
to write characters
Digital Rights Management (DRM)
Commentary on Shuowen Jiezi (1815) by Duan Yucai 段玉裁[duàn yù cái]
name of \speech\ or \words\ radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149)
to spell
a scholarly and inquisitive individual (idiom)
oracle script