之 (zhī)
Possessive particle (literary equivalent of 的); it/him/her (literary).
How 之 is written
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 王 — jade
- Traditional
- 之
- Simplified
- 之 (unchanged)
Components
- 王 jade
- 丶 dot
- 戈 spear
- ㇝ N/A
Common words using 之
- 之前 zhīqián
- before; prior to; ago
- 之後 zhīhòu
- afterwards; following; later
- 一臂之力 yībìzhīlì
- (lend) a helping hand
- 三分之一 sānfēnzhīyī
- one third
- 不敗之地 bùbàizhīdì
- invincible position
- 久而久之 jiǔérjiǔzhī
- over time; as time passes; in the fullness of time
- 之一 zhīyī
- one of (sth); one out of a multitude; one (third, quarter, percent etc)
- 之上 zhīshàng
- above
- 之下 zhīxià
- under; beneath; less than
- 之中 zhīzhōng
- inside
- 之內 zhīnèi
- inside; within
- 之外 zhīwài
- outside; excluding
之 in a sentence
之後我會再跟你聯絡。
Zhīhòu wǒ huì zài gēn nǐ liánluò.
“I will contact you again afterwards.”
How common is 之?
之 is the 44th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 28.8% of all running text.
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