(zhī) - classical possessive or linking particle in Mandarin
zhīTraditional: 之
HSK 5
#412 of 5,000 Core 1000
Translation
classical possessive or linking particle
Word origin
之 (zhī) is a classical possessive and linking particle. Its early graph shows 止 (zhǐ, 'foot') above a baseline, depicting setting out for a place; it was then borrowed for its grammatical functions.
- Origin
- ideograph
- Root
- 之 (zhī), 止 (foot) over a baseline; grammatical use is a borrowing
Stroke order
之
Examples
优秀。
He is one of the best.
。
This is what I love.
。
He is one of my friends.
。
He is my friend.
。
One third of the students did not come.
之 (zhī) - classical possessive or linking particle.
Appears in 7 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 之.
Used in
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