child

Builds 89 distinct compound words — ranked #24 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: シ・ス
訓 kun: こ

A child, and a small thing generally — 帽子 a hat, 椅子 a chair, 様子 a state of affairs.

The ten most common compounds built on 子. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

89compounds built

3,514times those words occur

#31by productivity alone

#35by how often it turns up

Where 子 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 子. Each one opens its own map.

時time; hour子供時代#14

Words built on 子

子供こども1,004 uses

息子むすこ559 uses

子供たち500 uses

子こ373 uses

帽子ぼうし193 uses

椅子いす149 uses

調子ちょうし58 uses

様子ようす57 uses

硝子ガラス49 uses

双子ふたご46 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.