Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. child; kid; teenager; youngster; young (non- adult) person
2. (one's) child; offspring
3. young (animal)
4. young woman
also 娘
Noun
5. offshoot
6. interest
7. new shares
8. player who is not a dealer (in cards, mahjong, etc.)
9. bird egg
Suffix
10. -er (often of young women)
after a noun or -masu stem
Noun
11. young geisha
also 姑
Pitch accent
Top 9200
Used in vocabulary (195 in total)
decorating a metal surface with small dots resembling fish eggs; twill weave; basket weave
baby; child
girl; daughter; baby girl; young woman
Examples (124 in total)
He is a bad boy.
My children are at school.
She's a sweet girl.
You're a bad boy.
Where's my kid?
I don't like bad children.
That child got bored.
She started crying, "Ah! Ah!"
Baby hedgehogs are adorable.
Who is this boy?
I was a very calm child.
Are there any cute girls in your class?
Please introduce me to a cute girl.
Our baby isn't speaking yet.
What a stupid boy he is!
He was really a child of his times.
Whose baby is this?
I believe she is a charming girl.
The child was full of curiosity.
He looks like a clever boy.
That child is afraid of the dark.
Every child bowed to the teacher.
He was playing with a toy.
Bad children need to be punished.
I am this kid's companion.
He got lost in the park.
The sins of the fathers are visited upon the children.
The nurse soothed the crying child.
She took care of the child.
My children try hard to get up early.
The boy appeared to be in bad health.
The child burst out crying.
This is my niece.
Is this Tom's son?
He is such a difficult boy.
Tom is a very smart boy.
The boy is yet to be found.
Whose little child is this? Where are his parents?
He likes chubby girls.
Tom is a determined boy, isn't he?
The child is learning quickly.
You are Simon, son of John.
Little children love Disneyland.
He is a very smart boy.
A lost child was sobbing at the police box.
My kid is being toilet trained.
My children can't speak Yiddish.
This is the girl that came yesterday.
That child has no fear of water.
Have you ever kissed another girl?
He stood behind his mother.
It looks like the child is finally asleep.
The story was handed down from father to son.
The child had a pure heart.
The kid has a lot of mangas.
The parents have brought up the child well.
That child resembles his father.
Every mother has affection for her child.
The boy must have broken the window.
The girl who is dressed in white is my fiancée.
The child was taken care of by him.
The child boarded the plane in a good mood.
I tried to soothe the child.
This boy's intelligence is above average.
Mary is really a nice girl.
This child talks like an adult.
He saved the child at the risk of his own life.
I just don't understand young people today.
The child believes that the earth is flat.
The mother of that child is an announcer.
To tell the truth, he was rather a shy boy.
That child dug a tunnel in the sandpit.
The boy is anxious for a new soccer ball.
There are many cute girls in the world.
The child does not even know how to add.
The boy wearing the purple baseball cap is Tom.
The child climbed to the top of the fir tree.
There is no doubt that his sons are good boys.
That kid likes playing with cats.
He had never seen such a bad boy.
Which of those girls do you like?
All of my children went to good universities.
He pressed his face against the shop window.
The girl who's playing the piano is my sister.
The doctor examined the child and said she was healthy.
That child may have been kidnapped on his way home.
He was such a nice boy that he was loved by everybody.
The boy grew up to be a great statesman.
He rescued the child from the burning house.
Peter fell in love with the girl.
My job consists of taking care of this baby.
The policeman saved the child from drowning.
Doctor, please give this child first aid.
A whale is a mammal; in other words it feeds milk to its young.
The child stretched out his hand to his mother.
We searched the woods for the missing child.
Mr. Fuji died, leaving 4 children behind him.
This child solved the complicated mathematics problem easily.
The boy playing the guitar is my brother.
He liked the boy's frank way of speaking.
The child was named Sophia after her grandmother.
Some boys don't like to bathe regularly.
The baby was named John after his uncle.
Never have I seen such a smart child.
I have a friend whose nickname is "Pencil."
I don't believe the child came to Tokyo alone.
She loves the boy as if he were her own child.
They have cherished the child as their own.
On hearing the news of the birth of his first child, he jumped for joy.
The rich merchant adopted the boy and made him his heir.
She taught the child never to play with matches.
The boy didn't reach his father's height of six feet.
Children should obey their parents.
My friend broke up with his girlfriend and now he wants to go out with me.
My kid is shy around strangers and always hides behind me.
My children like to play on the swings in the park near my house.
The newspaper is delivered to my doorstep every morning by the local delivery boy.
Parents often make sacrifices to give a good education to their children.
When I was in school, left-handed kids were forced to write with their right hands.
She held the child to her bosom.
A Malian woman gave birth to nine babies.
The child was hiding behind a big tree.
This book is easy enough for a five-year-old child to read.
In November 1997, in the US state of Iowa, the first living septuplets were born.