"赤子" meaning in Chinese

See 赤子 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵¹ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sʰɛːk̚³ t͡siː³⁵/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sʰiak̚⁵⁻²⁴ t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴/ [Hokkien, Quanzhou], /t͡sʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ t͡su⁵³/ [Hokkien, Taipei, Xiamen], /t͡sʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ t͡su⁴¹/ [Hokkien, Kaohsiung], /t͡sʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁵ t͡su⁵³/ [Hokkien, Zhangzhou], /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵¹ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/, /t͡sʰɛːk̚³ t͡siː³⁵/, /t͡sʰiak̚⁵⁻²⁴ t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴/, /t͡sʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ t͡su⁵³/, /t͡sʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ t͡su⁴¹/, /t͡sʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁵ t͡su⁵³/ Chinese transliterations: chìzǐ [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄔˋ ㄗˇ [Mandarin, bopomofo], cek³ zi² [Cantonese, Jyutping], chhiak-chír, chhek-chú, chìzǐ [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], chìhzǐh [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], chʻih⁴-tzŭ³ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], chr̀-dž [Mandarin, Yale], chyhtzyy [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], чицзы [Mandarin, Palladius], čiczy [Mandarin, Palladius], cek³ zi² [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong, Jyutping], chek jí [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong, Yale], tsek⁸ dzi² [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong, Pinyin], cég³ ji² [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong], chhiak-chír [Hokkien, POJ], tshiak-tsír [Hokkien, Tai-lo], chhek-chú [Hokkien, POJ], tshik-tsú [Hokkien, Tai-lo], zhekzuo [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun]
Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 赤子
  1. newborn baby; neonate Synonyms (newborn baby): (yā), 𰌦 (yā), 赤囝 [Hokkien], 𤘅孲 [Wu], 𤘅𰌦 [Wu]
    Sense id: en-赤子-zh-noun-2f9D1Xxq Disambiguation of 'newborn baby': 95 5
  2. (figurative) person cherishing true love for his native land; the people (of a country) Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-赤子-zh-noun-BW2bKbil Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 30 70 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 18 50 3 29 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 20 49 2 29
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 潢池赤子, 赤子之心 (chìzǐzhīxīn)
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "潢池赤子"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "chìzǐzhīxīn",
      "word": "赤子之心"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "noun"
      },
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  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "literal_meaning": "red child",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(Deal with them) as if you were protecting your own infants, and the people will be tranquil and orderly.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Classical Chinese",
            "Traditional Chinese",
            "Simplified Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " The Book of Documents, circa 4ᵗʰ – 3ʳᵈ century BCE",
          "roman": "Ruò bǎo chìzǐ, wéi mín qí kāngyì.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "若保赤子,惟民其康乂。",
          "type": "quote"
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        "newborn baby; neonate"
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        ]
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "roman": "yā",
          "sense": "newborn baby",
          "word": "孲"
        },
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "roman": "yā",
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          "word": "𰌦"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "sense": "newborn baby",
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "赤囝"
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          ],
          "word": "𤘅孲"
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            "Wu"
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          "word": "𤘅𰌦"
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          "person",
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        [
          "cherish",
          "cherish"
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        [
          "true",
          "true"
        ],
        [
          "love",
          "love"
        ],
        [
          "native",
          "native"
        ],
        [
          "land",
          "land"
        ],
        [
          "people",
          "people"
        ],
        [
          "country",
          "country#English"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) person cherishing true love for his native land; the people (of a country)"
      ],
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        "figuratively"
      ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chìzǐ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄔˋ ㄗˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "cek³ zi²"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "chhiak-chír"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "chhek-chú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chìzǐ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chìhzǐh"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chʻih⁴-tzŭ³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chr̀-dž"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chyhtzyy"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "чицзы"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "čiczy"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵¹ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "cek³ zi²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chek jí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tsek⁸ dzi²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "cég³ ji²"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰɛːk̚³ t͡siː³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chhiak-chír"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tshiak-tsír"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰiak̚⁵⁻²⁴ t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chhek-chú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tshik-tsú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "zhekzuo"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ t͡su⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ t͡su⁴¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁵ t͡su⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵¹ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰɛːk̚³ t͡siː³⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰiak̚⁵⁻²⁴ t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ t͡su⁵³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ t͡su⁴¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁵ t͡su⁵³/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "赤子"
}
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    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese nouns",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 子",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 赤",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "潢池赤子"
    },
    {
      "roman": "chìzǐzhīxīn",
      "word": "赤子之心"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "zh",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "Literary Chinese terms with quotations"
      ],
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          "english": "(Deal with them) as if you were protecting your own infants, and the people will be tranquil and orderly.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Classical Chinese",
            "Traditional Chinese",
            "Simplified Chinese"
          ],
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          "roman": "Ruò bǎo chìzǐ, wéi mín qí kāngyì.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "若保赤子,惟民其康乂。",
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        "newborn baby; neonate"
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          "person",
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        ],
        [
          "cherish",
          "cherish"
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          "true",
          "true"
        ],
        [
          "love",
          "love"
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          "native",
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        ],
        [
          "land",
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        "(figurative) person cherishing true love for his native land; the people (of a country)"
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    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chìzǐ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄔˋ ㄗˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "cek³ zi²"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "chhiak-chír"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "chhek-chú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chìzǐ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chìhzǐh"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chʻih⁴-tzŭ³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chr̀-dž"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chyhtzyy"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "чицзы"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "čiczy"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵¹ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "cek³ zi²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chek jí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tsek⁸ dzi²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "cég³ ji²"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰɛːk̚³ t͡siː³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chhiak-chír"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tshiak-tsír"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰiak̚⁵⁻²⁴ t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chhek-chú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tshik-tsú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "zhekzuo"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ t͡su⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ t͡su⁴¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁵ t͡su⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵¹ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰɛːk̚³ t͡siː³⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰiak̚⁵⁻²⁴ t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ t͡su⁵³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ t͡su⁴¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰiɪk̚³²⁻⁵ t͡su⁵³/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "yā",
      "sense": "newborn baby",
      "word": "孲"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yā",
      "sense": "newborn baby",
      "word": "𰌦"
    },
    {
      "sense": "newborn baby",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "赤囝"
    },
    {
      "sense": "newborn baby",
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "word": "𤘅孲"
    },
    {
      "sense": "newborn baby",
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "word": "𤘅𰌦"
    }
  ],
  "word": "赤子"
}

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