桌子
zhuō zi
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
A table or a desk: furniture with a flat top on legs. The ending 子 has a neutral tone, zhuōzi, as in 椅子 and 杯子. 'On the table' is 桌子上, literally 'table on'. Its measure word is 张 (zhāng).
Cái bàn: đồ đạc có mặt phẳng đặt trên chân, để ăn, học hay làm việc. 子 là hậu tố đọc thanh nhẹ (zhuōzi), giống trong 椅子, 杯子. “Trên bàn” là 桌子上: danh từ đứng trước, từ chỉ vị trí đứng sau. Lượng từ là 张 (zhāng).
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 “桌子” mean?
A table or a desk: furniture with a flat top on legs. The ending 子 has a neutral tone, zhuōzi, as in 椅子 and 杯子. 'On the table' is 桌子上, literally 'table on'. Its measure word is 张 (zhāng).
Is “桌子” formal or informal?
桌子 is generally neutral.