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侄

姪
zhí
noun #47,516

Meanings

  1. 1 nephew (brother's son)
  2. 2 niece

Examples

HSK 1
我侄子今年上大三了。
Wǒ zhízi jīnnián shàng dàsān le.
My nephew is in his third year of university this year.
HSK 7-9
她把侄女当成亲生女儿。
Tā bǎ zhínǚ dàngchéng qīnshēng nǚ'ér.
She treats her niece like her own daughter.

Tips

usage
侄 is the child of one's brother (or a male relative of the same generation): 侄子 = nephew, 侄女 = niece. A sister's child uses 外甥 instead.

Components

radical
亻 rén
person (left-side form of 人)
The standing-person radical (left-side form of 人) marks this as a word about a human relationship, here a family member.
phonetic
至 zhì
to arrive; to reach
On the right 至 supplies the sound, lightly shifted from zhì to zhí. It is purely phonetic here, carrying no meaning.

Stroke Order

侄 zhí