字母

zì mǔ

HSK 2.0 Level 6 HSK 3.0 Level 5 Noun Common

Definitions

1. letter (of the alphabet)

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Word relationships

Related words

2 items

字符

zì fú

character (computing)

字母指组成拼音文字的单个书写符号，字符是更广泛的概念，包括数字、标点等。

文字

wén zì

character

文字指书写语言的系统或单个字，字母是构成拼音文字的基本单位。

Usage notes

Collocations

常用搭配：大写字母 (capital letter)、小写字母 (small letter)、字母表 (alphabet)。

Common mistakes

常误用为“字”来指汉字，但“字母”只用于拼音文字的字母，如英语的A、B、C。

Example Sentences

4 shown

A是第一个字母。

A is the first letter.

我寫字母。

Source: Tatoeba.org (ID 2243454)

有幾個字母？

Source: Tatoeba.org (ID 13155820)

這個字母怎麼寫？

Source: Tatoeba.org (ID 5250639)

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Words Containing 字母

三十六字母

sān shí liù zì mǔ

thirty six initial consonants of Song phonetic theory

capital letters

alphabet

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])

alphabetical order

lowercase (letters)

Greek alphabet

Latin alphabet

phonetic letters

hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet

注音字母

zhù yīn zì mǔ

see 注音符號|注音符号[zhù yīn fú hào]

rune

Roman letters

Cyrillic alphabet

hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet; Korean letters

首字母

shǒu zì mǔ

initial letters

首字母拚音词

shǒu zì mǔ pīn yīn cí

acronym

首字母缩写

shǒu zì mǔ suō xiě