(zhǐ) - to point, to refer to, finger in Mandarin
zhǐTraditional: 指
Translation
to point, to refer to, finger
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the hand radical 扌 gives the meaning of a finger and of pointing, while 旨 (zhǐ) supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 扌 (hand radical) + 旨 (zhǐ, phonetic)
Stroke order
指
Examples
座。
He pointed at that mountain.
句？
What does this sentence refer to?
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Please point out the direction with your finger.
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She pointed at the door.
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The teacher pointed out my mistake.
指 (zhǐ) means to point, to refer to, finger. It is most often a verb for pointing at or referring to something.
Where this fits
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 指.
Used in
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