Kilo Lingo

只

zhī

Traditional: 只

HSK 4
#161 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

(literary possessive/linking particle)

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只

Examples

谊yì。

The flower of friendship.

。

Where the heart points.

千qiān。

A thousand miles away.

。

I just want to rest for a moment.

。

I only want to drink water.

只 (zhī) means (literary possessive/linking particle). It is used as a particle in everyday Mandarin speech.

Related words

的

of, possessive and modifier particle

而

and, but, yet (literary)

所有

all, every, all of

一切

everything, all, every

之前

before, prior to

Appears in 5 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 只.

只是zhǐ shìjust, merely, only只有zhǐ yǒuonly, just, the only one只要zhǐ yàoas long as, provided that, if only只能zhǐ néngcan only, have no choice but to一只yì zhīone (animal or single-of-paired item)

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This word is part of lesson 4.