侄
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brother's son; nephew
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 人 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 侄
- Common rank
- #2,953
- Unicode
- U+4F84
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
nephew · Heisig RSH #2091
人 person + 至 until
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 侄
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 表侄女 | daughter of a male cousin via female line | |
| 侄孙女 | grand niece | |
| 侄子 | brother's son; nephew | |
| 侄儿 | see 姪子|侄子[zhi2 zi5] | |
| 侄女 | brother's daughter; niece | |
| 表侄 | son of a male cousin via female line | |
| 堂侄 | nephew by the male line | |
| 侄女婿 | brother's daughter's husband; niece's husband | |
| 侄孙 | grandnephew | |
| 侄媳妇 | brother's son's wife; nephew's wife |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 至 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 至 sound part | reach, arrive; very, extremely | |
| 室 | house, home; room, chamber | |
| 致 | to send; to present, to deliver; to cause; consequence | |
| 蛭 | leech | |
| 郅 | to grow, to flourish; superlative | |
| 窒 | to obstruct, to stop | |
| 耋 | aged; in one's eighties | |
| 轾 | the back of a cart | |
| 咥 | the sound of a cat; to laugh; to bite | |
| 桎 | shackles, fetters, handcuffs | |
| 垤 | anthill; hill mound |