zhǐ
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) a small islet or sandbar in a stream

Examples

Qǐng bǎ jiātíng dìzhǐ xiě qīngchu.
Please write your home address clearly.

Tips

history
Not used independently in modern Chinese; a classical word for a tiny river islet, paired in old texts with (a larger islet). It is the water radical plus phonetic .
register
Archaic and literary only; encountered in classical poetry, not in everyday speech.

Components

radical
shuǐ
water
The three-drop water radical, in left-side form. It supplies the meaning, marking the word as something in or by water, the same family as and .
phonetic
zhǐ
to stop; foot; phonetic
The right side carries the sound zhǐ exactly. The same phonetic gives the reading of and ; here it lends pronunciation only.

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Stroke Order

zhǐ