沚

zhǐ
noun

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 4
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 渚 (a larger islet). It is the water radical 氵 plus phonetic 止.
register
Archaic and literary only; encountered in classical poetry, not in everyday speech.

Components

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

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Stroke Order

沚 zhǐ