杯子
bēi zi
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A cup, glass or mug: any small container you drink from. The ending 子 is said with a neutral tone, bēizi, and you count them with 个: 一个杯子. On its own, 杯 measures what a cup holds: 一杯茶 'a cup of tea', 两杯水 'two glasses of water'.
Cái cốc, cái ly, cái tách: đồ dùng nhỏ để uống. 子 là hậu tố đọc thanh nhẹ (bēizi); đếm cốc thì nói 一个杯子. Riêng chữ 杯 là lượng từ chỉ lượng đựng trong cốc: 一杯茶 (một tách trà), 两杯水 (hai cốc nước).
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 子 = tử · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “杯子” mean?
A cup, glass or mug: any small container you drink from. The ending 子 is said with a neutral tone, bēizi, and you count them with 个: 一个杯子. On its own, 杯 measures what a cup holds: 一杯茶 'a cup of tea', 两杯水 'two glasses of water'.
Is “杯子” formal or informal?
杯子 is generally neutral.