son

child

seed

egg

small thing

1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat

viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]

ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)

subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-

noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"