(hái) - child (bound morpheme in 孩子, 小孩, 男孩, 女孩) in Mandarin
háiTraditional: 孩
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Translation
child (bound morpheme in 孩子, 小孩, 男孩, 女孩)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the child radical 子 gives the meaning and 亥 (hài) supplies the sound, producing a word for child.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 子 (child radical) + 亥 (hài, phonetic)
Stroke order
孩
Examples
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This child is very clever.
糖。
Kids all love eating sweets.
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That girl is my friend.
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Their family has three children.
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She is a good girl.
孩 (hái) is a bound morpheme meaning child. It does not stand alone in modern Mandarin but is the core of 孩子 (child), 小孩 (kid), 男孩 (boy), and 女孩 (girl).
Appears in 5 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 孩.
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