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the Rat (first sign of the Chinese zodiac); hour of the Rat (around midnight, 11pm to 1am, or 12 midnight to 2am); north
child, kid, teenager, youngster, young (non-adult) person; (one's) child, offspring; young woman
child; interest
child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius), master
fruit, nut; seed; (in broth) pieces of meat, vegetable, etc.
honorific (or familiar) suffix used after a name
child, children
child rearing, child raising, raising children, parenting
descendant, posterity, offspring
womb, uterus
puppy; small dog
children, sons, children and younger brothers; young people
kitten; small cat
(another's) son
sons and daughters, children; girl
calf; small cow
lamb
child actor, child actress; child's role (in a film, play, etc.), child's part
children
lullaby
(time of) one's childhood, when one was a child
subsidiary (company)
looking after a baby, taking care of a baby, babysitting, babysitter
for use by children, for children
- 子細しさい
reasons, circumstances, significance, particulars; hindrance, obstruction, interference
- 子分こぶん
henchman, follower; adopted child
- 時鳥ほととぎす
lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
- 子持ちこもち
parenthood, parent or someone with children on the way (esp. an expecting mother); (of a fish) containing roe (eggs)
- 子連れこづれ
taking one's children along (to an event, into a new marriage, etc.); parent with child
- 子馬こうま
small horse, pony; foal, colt, filly
- 子音しいん
consonant
- 子作りこづくり
attempting to conceive, trying to have children
- 子爵ししゃく
viscount
- 子豚こぶた
piglet
- 子飼いこがい
rearing from infancy; training from an early age (e.g. an apprentice), teaching from an early stage (e.g. a subordinate)
- 子殺しこごろし
infanticide, filicide
- 子種こだね
child, offspring, issue; sperm, (one's) seed
- 子離れこばなれ
parents' ability (or inability) to let go of their children
- 子宝こだから
the treasure that is children, child
- 子安こやす
safe, easy childbirth; guardian bodhisattva, buddha or deity of children or childbirth (esp. Ksitigarbha or Avalokitesvara)