son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat; viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-

noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"

children; sons and daughters

people

uterus; womb

offspring; posterity

son; heir

viscount

(coll.) penny; buck

child; the younger generation

subsidiary company; subsidiary corporation

first two of the twelve earthly branches 十二地支; by ext., the earthly branches

Zi Chan (?-522 BC), statesman and philosopher during the Spring and Autumn period

see 紫荊|紫荆[zi3 jing1]

offspring; child's generation

clause (grammar)

(botany) cotyledon; seed leaf

subfield (math.)

midnight

variant of 籽實|籽实[zi3 shi2]

sublayer

ovary (botany)

11 pm-1 am (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)

Confucius says:

mother and son; interest and capital; combination of a large object and a smaller one of the same type

see 子洲縣|子洲县[Zi3 zhou1 Xian4]

variant of 仔豬|仔猪[zi3 zhu1]

subheading; specific item

seed

(computing) (attributive) child (in a hierarchy)

variant of 仔細|仔细[zi3 xi4]

subnetwork

subgroup (math.)

cuckoo

Zi Gong or Duanmu Ci 端木賜|端木赐[Duan1 mu4 Ci4] (520 BC-), disciple of Confucius

Zi Lu (542-480 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3], also known as Ji Lu 季路[Ji4 Lu4]

see 子長市|子长市[Zi3 chang2 Shi4]

(math.) subset

consonant

Year 1, year of the Rat (e.g. 2008)

(of a game, movie etc) intended for children (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 子供向け "kodomo-muke")

meridian

sub-brand

ascomycete

wall of the uterus

pessary

intrauterine device (IUD)

cervix; the neck of the uterus

submodel