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镇子

zhèn zi

2-character word Traditional 鎮子

What 镇子 means

1. town
2. village

The characters in 镇子

• 镇zhènto press down; to calm; to subdue
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

Example sentences

• 我第二次去他的镇子。
  Wǒ dì'èrcì qù tā de zhèn zǐ.
  I come to this town for the second time.
• 我们在镇子这片很有名气。
  We're pretty well known around town.
• 这镇子跟十年前的它差别很大。
  Zhè zhèn zǐ gēn shí niánqián de tā chābié hěn dà.
  This town is quite different from what it was ten years ago.
• 这镇子现在跟十年前差别很大。
  This town is quite different from what it was ten years ago.

Sounds the same

Read zhèn zi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 阵子period of time