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嗓子sǎng zi
throat
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 嗓子 | sǎngzi | |
| 1. n. throat | ||
| 清 嗓子zi - to clear one's throat | ||
| 潤 嗓子zi - to moisten one's throat | ||
| 嗓子zi 癢 - to have a tickle in one's throat | ||
| 2. n. voice | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| throat | ||
| 1. 咽喉；喉咙 | ||
| Components | ||
| 嗓 | sǎng | |
| 1. (anatomy) throat | ||
| 2. voice | ||
| 子 | zǐ | |
| 1. (literary) child; offspring | ||
| 2. son | ||
| 獨生子 - dúshēngzǐ - only son | ||
| 愛子 - àizǐ - beloved son | ||
| 一 子 一 女 - yī zǐ yī nǚ - one son and one daughter | ||
| 3. (literary) descendant; posterity | ||
| 4. (Christianity) the Son | ||
| 5. (in compounds) person | ||
| 女子 (nǚzǐ) - female; woman | ||
| 6. (literary) master; teacher | ||
| 7. (literary) A respectful title for teachers, usually attached after their surnames. | ||
| 孔子 (Kǒngzǐ) - Master Kong (Confucius) | ||
| 老子 (Lǎozǐ) - Laozi | ||
| 8. (literary, polite) you | ||
| 9. Alternative form of 籽 (seed); also its second-round simplified form. | ||
| 葵花子 (kuíhuāzǐ) - sunflower seed | ||
| 10. egg | ||
| 魚子 (yúzǐ) - caviar | ||
| 11. young; tender; small | ||
| 12. Prefix attached to nouns, denoting "a part of", "belonging to" or "individual". sub- | ||
| 子目錄 (zǐmùlù) - subdirectory | ||
| 13. (astrology) First earthly branch: rat in the Chinese zodiac, 11th solar month, midnight (11:00 pm to 1:00 am) | ||
| 14. (historical) viscount (fourth of five ranks of Chinese aristocracy under the Zhou dynasty) | ||
| 15. (physics, biology) -on | ||
| 16. (Min Nan) grain-like object; particle; granule | ||
| 17. (Min Nan, music) rhythm | ||
| 18. (Min Nan) | ||
| 19. Suffix: | ||
| 20. Used to nominalize. | ||
| 21. 瓶子zi - píngzi - bottle | ||
| 22. 刷子zi - shuāzi - brush | ||
| 23. 胖子zi - pàngzi - fat person | ||
| 24. (colloquial) Used in some classifiers. | ||
| 25. 一下子zi - yīxiàzi - all of a sudden | ||
| 26. small, round object | ||
| 算盤子jí (sǹg-pôaⁿ-jí) - abacus bead, MN | ||
| 27. (Xiamen, Quanzhou) | ||
| 28. (Zhangzhou, Taiwan) | ||
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Pronunciation
sǎng zi
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