Character · People
子
こ koだんご dangoまご magoこじ koji
child
Composition
Origin
Pictogram of an infant: large head, open arms, legs still swaddled.
In the thoughts
- 団子dangodumplings
- 馬子magopackhorse driver
- 虎子kojitiger cub
- 子どもkodomochildren
- 田子TagoTago (place)
Proverbs carrying this character
- 020 花より団子 Dumplings over flowers.
- 041 蛙の子は蛙 The child of a frog is a frog.
- 054 可愛い子には旅をさせよ Send the child you cherish on a journey.
- 055 親の心子知らず The child does not know the parent's heart.
- 056 子は鎹 A child is the clamp of the home.
- 061 馬子にも衣装 Clothes dress up even a stable hand.
- 094 負うた子に教えられて浅瀬を渡る The child on your back shows you the ford.
- 164 雀の子そこのけそこのけお馬が通る Little sparrows, make way, make way! The horse is passing.
- 166 名月を取ってくれろと泣く子かな "Catch me the moon!" cries the child.
- 182 虎穴に入らずんば虎子を得ず You cannot take the tiger's cub without entering its den.
- 220 雪とけて村いっぱいの子どもかな Snow has melted — the village is full of children.
- 266 泣く子と地頭には勝てぬ Against a crying child and a local lord, no one wins.
- 292 田子の浦にうち出でて見れば白妙の富士の高嶺に雪は降りつつ Coming out upon Tago Bay, I see: on Fuji's high peak, white, the snow still falling.