hái

Traditional: 孩

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Translation

child (bound morpheme in 孩子, 小孩, 男孩, 女孩)

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Stroke order for 孩

Examples

This child is very clever.

táng

Kids all love eating sweets.

That girl is my friend.

Their family has three children.

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).

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 孩.

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This word is part of lesson 101.