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儿子

ér zi

Old HSK 1 HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word Traditional 兒子

儿子 (ér zi) means "son". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 1 in the old six-level list.

What 儿子 means

1. son

The characters in 儿子

• 儿érchild; son
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

Example sentences

• 我的儿子！
  My son!
• 你儿子几岁?
  How old is your son?
• 他是我儿子。
  He's my son.
• 汤姆就是我儿子
  Tāngmǔ jiùshì wǒ érzi
  Tom is my boy.
• 我儿子比我高。
  My son is taller than me.
• 他有三个儿子。
  He has three sons.

Words containing 儿子

• 干儿子gān ér ziadopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
• 龟儿子guī ér zi(colloquial) bastard; son of a bitch

Where 儿子 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Family and People (HSK 1), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 1 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read ér zi correctly.
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