"Child" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 hái zi child
 ér tóng child / CL:個|个[ge4]
 xiǎo hái child / CL:個|个[ge4]
 xiǎo hái zi child
 xiǎo péng yǒu child / CL:個|个[ge4]
 shào ér child
 zǐ dì child / the younger generation
 hái tóng child
 hái ér child
 zǐ son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat / Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° / (north) / subsidiary / subordinate / sub-
 tóng zhì child / childish
 rú zǐ (literary) child
 ér child / son
 hái (bound form) child
 chuí tiáo falling hair of a child / (fig.) child
 tóng child
 yá (dialect) child
 zǎi child / young animal
 rú child
 nān child / daughter
 nú child / offspring
 jiǎn child
 shēng chǎn to produce / to manufacture / to give birth to a child
 lǎo dà old age / very / eldest child in a family / leader of a group / boss / captain of a boat / leader of a criminal gang
 jiā zhǎng head of a household / family head / patriarch / parent or guardian of a child
 rù xué to enter a school or college / to go to school for the first time as a child
 wá wa baby / small child / doll
 yòu ér young child / infant / preschooler
 xiǎo ér young child / (humble) my son
 yǎng shēng to maintain good health / to raise a child or animal / curing (of concrete etc)
 tāi ér unborn child / fetus / embryo
 xiǎo guǐ little demon (term of endearment for a child) / mischievous child / imp
 qīn zǐ parent and child / parent-child (relationship) / two successive generations
 sā jiāo to act like a spoiled child / to throw a tantrum / to act coquettishly
 lǎo èr second-eldest child in a family / (euphemism) penis
 mǔ zǐ mother and child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest
 qīn shēng one's own (child) (i.e. one's child by birth) / biological (parents) / birth (parents)
 yù ér to raise a child
 shēng zǐ to give birth to a child or children
 bù yùn infertile / unable to conceive a child / infertility
 wèi yǎng to feed (a child, domestic animal etc) / to keep / to raise (an animal)
 lā che to drag / to pull / to raise a child (through difficulties) / to help / to support / to drag in / to chat
 huàn ér child victim of disaster or disease / afflicted child
 shén tóng child prodigy
 fàn zǐ child trafficking
 dú shēng zǐ nu:3 an only child
 xiǎo míng pet name for a child / childhood name
 gū ér yuàn orphanage / child asylum
 nán tóng boy / male child
 qī ér wife and child
 xiǎo bu diǎn tiny / very small / tiny thing / small child / baby
 sī shēng zǐ illegitimate child (male) / bastard / love child
 xiǎo huáng dì child emperor / (fig.) spoiled child / spoiled boy / pampered only child
 yòu tóng young child
 yǒu xǐ to be expecting / to be with child
 rèn lǐng to claim (as one's property) / to adopt (a child) / to accept (an illegitimate child as one's own)
 dòu nòng to tease / to provoke / to play with (a child, animal etc)
 rèn yǎng to sponsor / to adopt (pledge to give sb or sth one's special attention or support) / to adopt (choose to raise a child or animal as one's own)
怀 huái tāi to become pregnant / to carry a child in the womb
 jì yǎng to place in the care of sb (a child, pet etc) / to foster / to board out
 fǔ yǎng fèi child support payment (after a divorce)
 Pǔ yí Puyi, personal name of the last Qing emperor (reigned as child 1909-1911), the subject of Bertolucci's biopic The Last Emperor
 fù yòu bǎo jiàn maternal and child health
 tóng xīng child star
 tóng gōng child labor
 hái tí (literary) infant / young child
 chǒng huài to spoil (a child etc)
 péi dú to accompany one's child or spouse who is studying overseas / to help a child with their study, reading or practicing together
 wá zi baby / small child / (arch.) slave among ethnic minorities
 wàng zǐ chéng lóng lit. to hope one's son becomes a dragon (idiom) / fig. to long for one' s child to succeed in life / to have great hopes for one's offspring / to give one's child the best education as a career investment
 xiǎo xí fu young married woman / mistress / (fig.) punching bag / (old) child bride
 yě hái zǐ feral child
 rǔ míng pet name for a child / infant name
 r tóng jiàn kāng child health
 shàn yǎng fèi alimony / child support / maintenance allowance
 yuè sǎo woman hired to take care of a newborn child and its mother in the month after childbirth
 tóng zǐ jūn child soldiers / juvenile militia
 r tóng bǎo jiàn child health
 yá nèi child of an official / palace bodyguard
 wǎn yù late childbirth / to have a child at a later age
 fǔ yǎng quán custody (of a child etc)
 yě zhǒng (derog.) illegitimate child / bastard
 dī néng ér retarded child / moron / idiot
 tóng yǎng xí child bride / girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law
 zhì zǐ young child
 qiú zǐ (of a childless couple) to pray for a son / to try to have a child
 jī xíng ér deformed child / child with birth defect
 yuán fáng (of a child bride) to consummate marriage
 yí fù zǐ posthumous child
 láng hái wolf child / human child raised by wolves (in legends)
 fēi hūn shēng zǐ nu:3 an illegitimate child
 gū xī yǎng jiān to tolerate is to nurture an evildoer (idiom) / spare the rod and spoil the child
 rǔ ér nursing infant / child less than one year old
 yù (archaic) to give birth to a child / to rear
 Ní (literary) small child / limit / bound / extremity / to differentiate / origin / cause
 gū crying sound of child
 jiū (onom.) wailing of child / chirp / kiss (Tw)
 miǎn to give birth to a child
 zhī lán yù shù lit. orchids and jade trees (idiom) / fig. a child with splendid future prospects
 dú miáo only child / sole scion
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