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What does 孙子 mean?

猫头鹰māotóuyīngowl

孙子 sūnzi

grandson

It can also mean

  • (vulgar) punk; lowlife; coward (insult)
  • Sunzi (author of The Art of War)
  • Sunzi (Sun Tzu, the strategist behind 孙子兵法 “The Art of War”)

Its characters

  1. 孙 sūn grandchild
  2. 子 zi (suffix) noun suffix (as in 桌子)

In a sentence

奶奶最喜欢她的小孙子。 Grandma loves her little grandson the most.

对了,他还是孔子的第二十代孙子。

From 孔融让梨 · Kong Rong and the pears: the boy who took the smallest one

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