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zhī Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
zhī | zhi1
English translation
only, merely, just

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About zhī

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Number of strokes

10

Traditional form

zhī

Contains the radical

zhuī

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

Learning hint

again

Etymology of zhī

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

隹又

Semantic compound

yòu

Phonetic compound

zhuī

Explanation

Origin unclear. In simplified Chinese zhǐ is also used to mean "[measure word]", while in traditional Chinese this meaning is written with a separate character zhī .

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Words with zhī

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
zhǐ only zhǐ
只是 zhǐ shì merely只是 zhǐ shì
只要 zhǐyào if only只要 zhǐyào
只能 zhǐ néng can only只能 zhǐ néng
只不过 zhǐ bu guò only只不過
只好 zhǐhǎo to have to只好 zhǐhǎo
只得 zhǐ dé to be obliged to只得 zhǐ dé
只怕 zhǐ pà perhaps只怕 zhǐ pà
船只 chuán zhī ship船隻
不只 bù zhǐ not only不只 bù zhǐ
只顾 zhǐ gù engrossed只顧
只管 zhǐ guǎn simply只管 zhǐ guǎn
只身 zhī shēn alone隻身
只字不提 zhī zì bù tí to censor隻字不提
舰只 jiàn zhī warship艦隻
只言片语 zhǐ yán piàn yǔ just a word or two (idiom); a few isolated phrases只言片語
只读 zhǐ dú read-only (computing)只讀
只争朝夕 zhǐ zhēng zhāo xī to seize every minute (idiom)只爭朝夕
形单影只 xíng dān yǐng zhī lonely soul形單影隻
只消 zhǐ xiāo to only need只消 zhǐ xiāo
三只手 sān zhī shǒu pickpocket三隻手
只欠东风 zhǐ qiàn dōng fēng all we need is an east wind (idiom); lacking only one tiny crucial item只欠東風

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