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父子

fù zǐ

HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

父子 (fù zǐ) means "father and son". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 父子 means

1. father and son

The characters in 父子

• 父fù(bound form) father; (bound form) male relative of father's generation…
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

Example sentences

• 父父子子。
  Fù fùzǐ zǐ.
  Let the fathers be fathers and the sons sons.

Sounds the same

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

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read fù zǐ correctly.
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