字

Information about character(s)

Radical: 子
Radical Strokes: 3
Additional Strokes: 3
Total Strokes: 6

Pronunciation

Pinyin: zì
Cantonese: zi6
JapaneseKun: AZA UMU MASU
JapaneseOn: JI
Korean: CA
Vietnamese: tự

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: letter, character, word

CE-Dict: letter/symbol/character/word/CL:個|个[ge4]/courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China

Soothill: akṣara, 阿乞史囉; 阿剎羅; a letter, character; akṣara (अक्षर) is also used for a vowel, especially the vowed 'a' as distinguished from the other vowels; a word, words.

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.a written Chinese character
2.a word

21 Century bidirectional science and technology dictionary: word - 計

朗道漢英字典 - Lang Dao: letter; printing type; pronunciation; word; writings
【計】 graphtyper; W; WD; word

懶蟲簡明漢英詞典: word; wordage; character; loanshift

湘雅醫學專業詞典: word

說文解字 - Shuowen: 《子部》字乳也。从子在宀下，子亦聲。

康熙字典文字版 【寅集上】【子字部】字
〔古文〕𡥜𥤪【唐韻】【集韻】【韻會】疾置切【正韻】疾二切，𠀤音自。【說文】乳也。又愛也。【書·康誥】父不能字厥子。乃疾厥子。【周禮·地官·鄭註】小國貢輕，字之也。【左傳·成四年】楚雖大，非吾族也，其肯字我乎。　又文字。字者，孳也，六義相生無窮也。黃帝臣沮誦倉頡，體卦畫，摹鳥跡，引伸觸類，文字之形始立。【周禮·春官·外史】周禮春官掌達書名于四方。註古曰名，今曰字。疏滋益而多，故更稱曰字。　又名字。【禮·曲禮】男子二十冠而字。【儀禮·士冠禮】冠而字之，敬其名也。君父之前稱名，他人則稱字也。【又】女子許嫁筓而字。【註】亦成人之道也。　又女許嫁曰字。【易·屯卦】女子貞不字，十年乃字。　又畜之牝者能孕字，故謂牝曰字。【史記·平準書】乗字牝者，儐而不得聚會。亦作牸。　又姓。【正字通】宋廉州判官字諤。
考證：〔【周禮·春官·大宗伯內史】掌書名於四方。【註】古曰名，今曰字。滋益而名，故更曰字。〕　謹照原文改周禮春官外史掌達書名于四方。註古曰名，今曰字。疏滋益而多，故更稱曰字。

Ding Fubao - Dictionary for Buddhist Studies (丁福保:佛學大辭典) （雜語）梵曰阿乞史Aks!ara，又雲阿剎羅。見梵語雜名。

（術語）【參見: 】

Buddhism words and phrases word

CF-Dict: caractère/mot

Han-De-Dict: Schriftzeichen (u.E.) (S)

Finnish: vauva, jälkeläinen, raskaus; kihlaus; kirjain, symboli, merkki, titteli, alias