字
zìTraditional: 字
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Translation
character, written word
Stroke order
字
Examples
？
How do you write your name?
。
I like watching films with subtitles on.
。
I don't recognise this character.
？
How do you write this character?
。
His handwriting is very beautiful.
字 (zì) means a written character, the basic unit of Chinese writing. It anchors 名字 (name) and 字幕 (subtitles), and is the natural way to talk about individual characters as opposed to multi-syllable words (词).
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 字.
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