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字母

zì mǔ

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Measure word 个

字母 (zì mǔ) means "letter (of the alphabet)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 字母 means

1. letter (of the alphabet)

The characters in 字母

• 字zìletter; symbol; character
• 母mǔmother; elderly female relative; origin

Example sentences

• 我写字母。
  I write letters.
• 选择一个字母。
  Pick a letter.
• 这个字母怎么写？
  How do you write this character?
• 书是按字母排序的。
  The books were ordered alphabetically.
• 英文有二十六个字母。
  The English alphabet has 26 letters.
• 写下字母的大写字母。
  Write the alphabet in capitals.

Words starting with 字母

• 字母表zì mǔ biǎoalphabet
• 字母词zì mǔ cíword that contains one or more letters of an alphabet (e.g. HSK, PK, WTO, PO文, PM2.5, γ射線
• 字母顺序zì mǔ shùn xùalphabetical order

Words containing 字母

• 首字母shǒu zì mǔinitial letter of a word
• 大写字母dà xiě zì mǔcapital letters; uppercase letters
• 小写字母xiǎo xiě zì mǔlowercase (letters)
• 罗马字母Luó mǎ zì mǔRoman letters; Roman alphabet
• 西里尔字母Xī lǐ ěr zì mǔCyrillic alphabet; Cyrillic letters
• 卢恩字母lú ēn zì mǔrune
• 拉丁字母Lā dīng zì mǔLatin alphabet
• 朝鲜字母Cháo xiǎn zì mǔhangul, Korean phonetic alphabet; Korean letters
• 首字母缩写shǒu zì mǔ suō xiěacronym
• 韩文字母Hán wén zì mǔhangul, Korean phonetic alphabet; Korean letters
• 希腊字母Xī là zì mǔGreek alphabet
• 拼音字母pīn yīn zì mǔphonetic letters
• 三十六字母sān shí liù zì mǔthirty six initial consonants of Song phonetic theory
• 注音字母zhù yīn zì mǔsee 注音符号

Where 字母 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zì mǔ correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.