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世子

shì zǐ

2-character word

What 世子 means

1. crown prince; heir of a noble house

The characters in 世子

• 世shìlife; age; generation
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

Sounds the same

Read shì zǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 士子official; scholar (old)
• 释子(literary) Buddhist monk; Buddhist monastic

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