HSK 4 · Nature

叶子 yèzi “leaf” in Chinese

Traditional 葉子

What 叶子 means

  1. leaf

How to say 叶子

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale叶yè4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own子zineutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

叶子 in a sentence

  1. 秋天，叶子会落下。

    Qiūtiān, yèzi huì luòxià.

    The leaves fall in autumn.

    Sentence #667351 from Tatoeba

  2. 花园里树上的叶子已经完全变红了。

    Huāyuán lǐ shù shàng de yèzi yǐjīng wánquán biàn hóng le.

    The leaves on the trees in the garden have turned completely red.

    Sentence #1394790 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 生菜叶子很容易枯掉。

    Shēngcài yèzi hěn róngyì kūdiào.

    Lettuce leaves wilt easily.

    Sentence #6940180 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 叶子 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 叶 (yè) with each of its parts in a different colour
叶yèleaf
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 十ten · shí
The character 子 (zi) with each of its parts in a different colour
子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子 “chair”
  • 了clear · le
  • 一one · yī

Memory aidA baby with its arms out and its legs wrapped up.

How to write 叶子

叶 5 strokes · 子 3 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

叶子 (yèzi) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 叶子 (yèzi). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 叶子

Words with 子

儿子érzi · son椅子yǐzi · chair桌子zhuōzi · table杯子bēizi · cup妻子qīzi · wife孩子háizi · child本子běnzi · book子zi · (common noun suffix)裤子kùzi · pants帽子màozi · hat

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FAQs

叶子 (yèzi) means “leaf”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it yèzi: yè with a 4th tone, then zi with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 叶子 is written 葉子. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yezi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 叶子 from the suggestions. Typing yezi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
叶子 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.