精子

Chinese

		energy; perfect; excellent energy; perfect; excellent; refined; very; proficient	child; son; (noun suff.) child; son; (noun suff.); small thing; midnight; 11 p.m.-1 a.m.; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch
simp. and trad. (精子)		精	子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jīngzǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄥ ㄗˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zing¹ zi²
• Min Nan (POJ): cheng-chír / cheng-chú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jīngzǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄥ ㄗˇ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jingtzyy
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zing¹ zi²
    • Yale: jīng jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzing¹ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: jing¹ ji²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪŋ⁵⁵ t͡siː³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cheng-chír
    • Tâi-lô: tsing-tsír
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiɪŋ³³ t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cheng-chú
    • Tâi-lô: tsing-tsú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zengzuo
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡su⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡su⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² t͡su⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² t͡su⁵³/

Noun

精子

1. (cytology) sperm cell

Synonyms

• 精蟲／精虫 (jīngchóng)

Derived terms

• 精子數／精子数 (jīngzǐshù)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
精	子
せい Grade: 5	し Grade: 1
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) せ​いし [séꜜèshì] (Atamadaka - [1])
  • (Tokyo) せいし [sèéshí] (Heiban - [0])
  • IPA^(key): [se̞ːɕi]
• Homophones: 世子, 世嗣, 正史, 正矢, 正使, 正視, 生死, 生祠, 生紙, 生歯, 成歯, 西詩, 制止, 制詞, 姓氏, 青史, 青糸, 青糸, 青紫, 省思, 旌幟, 聖旨, 精翅, 製糸, 製紙, 誓紙, 誓詞, 静止, 静思, 整枝

Noun

精子 (hiragana せいし, rōmaji seishi)

1. (cytology) a sperm cell

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Korean

Hanja in this term
精	子

Noun

精子 • (jeongja, McCune-Reischauer: chŏngsa, Yale: cengsa) (hangeul 정자)

1. Hanja form^? of 정자, “sperm cell”.