椅子
yǐ zi
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A chair: a seat with a back, for one person. The ending 子 has a neutral tone, yǐzi. Sitting on one is 坐在椅子上, and its measure word is 把 (bǎ). A stool without a back is a different word, 凳子 (dèngzi).
Cái ghế có tựa lưng, chỗ ngồi cho một người. 子 là hậu tố đọc thanh nhẹ (yǐzi). “Ngồi trên ghế” là 坐在椅子上; lượng từ là 把 (bǎ). Ghế đẩu không có tựa là một từ khác: 凳子 (dèngzi).
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 “椅子” mean?
A chair: a seat with a back, for one person. The ending 子 has a neutral tone, yǐzi. Sitting on one is 坐在椅子上, and its measure word is 把 (bǎ). A stool without a back is a different word, 凳子 (dèngzi).
Is “椅子” formal or informal?
椅子 is generally neutral.