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剪子

jiǎnzi

scissors

HSK 5 · Topic “Home and things”
A small pair of scissors
Memory picture

Characters in this word

剪 jiǎn

Strokes
11
Radical
刀 — knife
Made of
前 in front, forward 刀 knife
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

子 zi

Strokes
3
Radical
子 — son, child
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing

Example phrases

  • 剪子在哪儿？ Jiǎnzi zài nǎr? Where are the scissors?
  • 给我剪子。 Gěi wǒ jiǎnzi. Give me the scissors.
  • 这把剪子很小。 Zhè bǎ jiǎnzi hěn xiǎo. These scissors are very small.

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