| 1 | 字 | 字 | zì | zi4 | letter; symbol; character; word; Classifiers: 个 ; courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China | | |
| 2 | 字母 | 字母 | zì mǔ | zi4 mu3 | letter (of the alphabet); Classifiers: 个 | | |
| 3 | 字形 | 字形 | zì xíng | zi4 xing2 | font; typeface; form of a Chinese character; variant of 字型 | | |
| 4 | 字眼 | 字眼 | zì yǎn | zi4 yan3 | wording | | |
| 5 | 字样 | 字樣 | zì yàng | zi4 yang4 | model or template character; written slogan or phrase; mention (e.g. "air mail" 航空 on a letter, "first draft" 初稿 on a document etc) | | |
| 6 | 字节跳动 | 字節跳動 | zì jié tiào dòng | Zi4 jie2 Tiao4 dong4 | ByteDance, Beijing-based Internet technology company, founded in 2012 | | |
| 7 | 字帖儿 | 字帖兒 | zì tiě r | zi4 tie3 r5 | piece of paper with short note; short letter | | |
| 8 | 字头 | 字頭 | zì tóu | zi4 tou2 | first letter of a word or serial number; first character of a Chinese word; first digit of a number; the top part (esp. a radical) of a Chinese character; the initial of a Chinese syllable | | |
| 9 | 字根通用码 | 字根通用碼 | zì gēn tōng yòng mǎ | zi4 gen1 tong1 yong4 ma3 | common coding for components of Chinese character; same as Zheng coding 郑码 | | |
| 10 | 字节 | 字節 | zì jié | zi4 jie2 | byte | | |
| 11 | 字脚 | 字腳 | zì jiǎo | zi4 jiao3 | serif; hook at the end of brushstroke | | |
| 12 | 字迹 | 字跡 | zì jì | zi4 ji4 | handwriting | | |
| 13 | 字集 | 字集 | zì jí | zi4 ji2 | character set | | |
| 14 | 字汇 | 字彙 | zì huì | zi4 hui4 | Zihui, Chinese character dictionary with 33,179 entries, released in 17th century; (computer) character repertoire; glossary, lexicon | | |
| 15 | 字画古玩 | 字畫古玩 | zì huà gǔ wán | zi4 hua4 gu3 wan2 | painting, calligraphy, and antiques (idiom) | | |
| 16 | 字号 | 字號 | zì hào | zi4 hao4 | characters and numbers (as used in a code); alphanumeric code; serial number | | |
| 17 | 字根合体字 | 字根合體字 | zì gēn hé tǐ zì | zi4 gen1 he2 ti3 zi4 | stem compound | | |
| 18 | 字根表 | 字根表 | zì gēn biǎo | zi4 gen1 biao3 | table of components used in wubi input method 五笔输入法 | | |
| 19 | 字根 | 字根 | zì gēn | zi4 gen1 | character root; word root; etymon | | |
| 20 | 字符串 | 字符串 | zì fú chuàn | zi4 fu2 chuan4 | string (computer science) | | |
| 21 | 字符 | 字符 | zì fú | zi4 fu2 | character (computing) | | |
| 22 | 字调 | 字調 | zì diào | zi4 diao4 | tone of a character | | |
| 23 | 字典 | 字典 | zì diǎn | zi4 dian3 | Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 词典 , which has entries for words of one or more characters); (coll.) dictionary; Classifiers: 本 | | |
| 24 | 字组 | 字組 | zì zǔ | zi4 zu3 | block (of data); code word | | |
| 25 | 字词 | 字詞 | zì cí | zi4 ci2 | letters or words; words or phrase | | |