孩子
hái zi
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
A child, or children: a young person, or someone's son or daughter at any age. 我的孩子 is 'my child' and 有孩子 'to have children'; no plural ending is needed, though 孩子们 is used for a group. 子 has a neutral tone: háizi.
Đứa trẻ, trẻ con; cũng là con cái của ai đó, dù lớn hay nhỏ. 我的孩子 là “con tôi”, 有孩子 là “có con”; không cần đuôi số nhiều, nhưng nói cả nhóm trẻ thì có thể dùng 孩子们. Chữ 子 đọc thanh nhẹ: háizi.
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 “孩子” mean?
A child, or children: a young person, or someone's son or daughter at any age. 我的孩子 is 'my child' and 有孩子 'to have children'; no plural ending is needed, though 孩子们 is used for a group. 子 has a neutral tone: háizi.
Is “孩子” formal or informal?
孩子 is generally neutral.