CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

单子

dānzǐ

the only son of a family

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

the only son of a family

(functional programming or philosophy) monad

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 单子 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 单子 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

请把发给你的那张单子看一下，再确认一下所有的句子都很通顺。qǐng bǎ fā gěi nǐ de nà zhāng dān zi kàn yī xià， zài què rèn yī xià suǒ yǒu de jù zi dōu hěn tōng shùn。

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为了详述它们的价值观，公司常常在它们的册子里，在网站上或者在办公室里挂着有五到十个“目标宣言”的单子，作为一种对雇员、顾客和民众的交流。wèi le xiáng shù tā men de jià zhí guān， gōng sī cháng cháng zài tā men de cè zi lǐ， zài wǎng zhàn shàng huò zhě zài bàn gōng shì lǐ guà zhe yǒu wǔ dào shí gè “ mù biāo xuān yán ” de dān zi， zuò wéi yī zhǒng duì gù yuán、 gù kè hé mín zhòng de jiāo liú。

Businesses often have a list of 5-10 'mission statements' featured in their brochures, on their websites or hanging in their office detailing the values they hold as a form of communication to their employees, their clients and the public.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 单子.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 单子.

Directly before

张单子1
的单子1

Directly after

单子看1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 单子

What does 单子 mean in Chinese?

单子 (dānzǐ) means the only son of a family.

How do you pronounce 单子?

单子 is pronounced dānzǐ. It also has the reading dānzi.

Is 单子 an HSK word?

单子 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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