offspring, child; fruit, seed of; first earthly branch
The corpus record — Literary Chinese
子
zǐ
offspring, child; fruit, seed of; first earthly branch
Every figure on this page is a live query of the corpus record.
Where it lives
- Analects (Lunyu) 975 · 608.5/10k
- Mencius 940 · 265.06/10k
- Zhuangzi, Inner Chapters 204 · 148.05/10k
- Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 30 · 17.05/10k
What it meant — Unihan character definitions
In the wild
- 子 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十八章
- 子 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 二十五章
- 子 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 三十一章
- 子 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 三十一章
- 子 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 三十七章
- 子 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 三十八章
6 of 2,149 attestations shown.
Chinese texts (Daodejing, Analects, Zhuangzi, Mencius) are public domain by age; transcriptions from Kanripo and Wikisource (CC BY-SA 4.0). Readings via Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).