JLPT N5 vocabulary

子meaning and reading

Reading and pitch accent

こ0Heiban · flat

Meaning

  1. child, kid, teenager, youngster, young non-adult person
  2. (one’s) child, offspring
  3. young woman
  4. young animal
  5. offshoot
  6. interest
  7. new share (finance, abbreviation)
  8. non-dealer player (cards, mahjong)
  9. young geisha, young prostitute
  10. bird egg (archaic)
  11. -er (often of young women, after a noun or -masu stem)
Illustration of 子

Example sentences

  1. 太郎たろうはいい子こだよ。

    Taro is a good kid, you know.

  2. あの子こはすぐ怒っおこたり、泣いなたりする。

    That child is quick to get angry or cry.

  3. この子こはお兄さんにいぶって妹いもうとになんでも注意ちゅういするんです。

    This child acts like an older brother and will warn his younger sister about anything.