卒子

Chinese

		die; soldier; abruptly die; soldier; abruptly; hurriedly	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
simp. and trad. (卒子)		卒	子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zúzi

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨˊ ˙ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zeot¹ zi²
• Gan (Wiktionary): ziit⁶ zi
• Jin (Wiktionary): zueh⁴ zeh
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): zou⁶ zr

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zúzi
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨˊ ˙ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zúzi̊h
    • Wade–Giles: tsu²-tzŭ⁵
    • Yale: dzú-dz
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzwu.tzy
    • Palladius: цзуцзы (czuczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su³⁵ d͡z̥z̩³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zeot¹ zi²
    • Yale: jēut jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoet⁷ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: zêd¹ ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɵt̚⁵ t͡siː³⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: ziit⁶ zi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɨt̚⁵ t͡sz̩²/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: zueh⁴ zeh
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /t͡suəʔ² t͡səʔ³/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: zou⁶ zr
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡səu̯²⁴ t͡sz̩³/

Noun

卒子

1. (dated, military) low ranking soldier; foot soldier; private
2. (xiangqi, chess) pawn (on the black side)

Synonyms

• (chess pawn):

Dialectal synonyms of 卒子 (“xiangqi black pawn”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		卒子
Northeastern Mandarin	Harbin	卒兒
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	小卒兒
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	小卒兒, 卒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	卒子, 小卒
	Xi'an	卒子, 卒, 小卒
	Xining	卒, 卒子, 尕卒兒
	Xuzhou	小卒, 小卒子, 小卒兒, 卒頭子
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	卒
	Lanzhou	卒子, 卒
	Ürümqi	卒兒, 卒子, 卒娃子
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	卒子, 卒
	Guiyang	卒子, 卒, 小卒子, 小卒
	Liuzhou	卒崽, 卒
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	小卒, 卒子
	Yangzhou	卒子, 小卒子
Cantonese	Hong Kong	卒
	Dongguan	卒
Gan	Nanchang	卒子, 卒
	Lichuan	卒
	Pingxiang	卒仔, 卒
Hakka	Meixian	卒
	Yudu	卒子, 卒
Huizhou	Jixi	卒
Jin	Taiyuan	卒子
	Xinzhou	卒子, 黑卒子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	卒仔
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	卒, 卒囝
Southern Min	Xiamen	卒仔, 卒
	Quanzhou	卒仔, 卒
	Zhangzhou	卒仔, 卒
	Tainan	卒仔
	Leizhou	卒囝
	Haikou	卒
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	卒崽, 卒
Wu	Shanghai	卒
	Shanghai (Chongming)	卒
	Suzhou	卒
	Danyang	卒, 卒卒
	Hangzhou	卒卒兒
	Ningbo	卒格, 卒格爛眼
	Wenzhou	卒兒, 爛頭卒
	Jinhua	卒
Xiang	Changsha	卒子, 卒
	Loudi	卒子, 卒