字 (zi6) — word; letter; character; word; logograp… in Cantonese

ziˍ₆字

Mandarin Pinyin: zi4

Meaning of 字

nounword; letter; character; word; logograph; glyph

nounChinese character with more than one component, cf. 文

nounbetroth a girl

nounname or style taken at the age of 20, by which one was sometimes called

noun(noun) the number of floor

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Example Sentences with 字

你打字打得很快呀！

You type very fast!

漢字是歷史上最古老的文字之一，大概四千歲了。

Chinese characters are one of history's most ancient writing scripts, approximately four thousand years old.

而家幾點鐘? 而家係三點三個字。

What time is it now? It's a quarter past three.

唔好用啲咁僻嘅字眼!

Don't use such uncommon wording!

啲字寫得好四正!

These writings are very neat and tidy.

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Words Containing 字

同音字tung4 jam1 zi6

homonym (character with exactly the same sound)

絕對數字zyut6 deoi3 sou3 zi6

absolute (as opposed to relative) number

人字jan4 zi6

y-shaped; herringbone

粵英字典jyut6 jing1 zi6 din2

a Cantonese-English (character) dictionary

example of characters

弄字底lung6 zi6 dai2

Kangxi radical 55 (two hands) (廾)

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