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咫

zhǐ

Character

What 咫 means

1. 8 in. length unit of Zhou dynasty

Words starting with 咫

• 咫尺zhǐ chǐ(literary) very close; very near
• 咫尺天涯zhǐ chǐ tiān yáso close, yet worlds apart (idiom)

Words containing 咫

• 近在咫尺jìn zài zhǐ chǐ(idiom) very close; almost within reach; close at hand

Characters built on 只

These share the phonetic component 只 (zhǐ), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 织zhīto weave; to knit
• 识shíto know; knowledge; Taiwan pr. shì
• 职zhíoffice; duty
• 积jīto amass; to accumulate; to store up; (math) product (the result of multiplication)…
• 帜zhìflag
• 炽chìto burn; to blaze; splendid
• 枳zhǐ(orange); hedge thorn
• 轵zhǐend of axle outside of hub

Characters that look like 咫

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 朋péngfriend
• 烤kǎoto roast; to grill; to broil; to bake; to toast (bread); to warm oneself by a fire
• 埋máito bury
• 郑zhèngused in 郑重
• 朔shuòbeginning; first day of lunar month; north
• 郅zhìextremely; very

Sounds the same

Read zhǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 只only; merely; just
• 指finger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to
• 纸paper; classifier for documents, letters etc
• 止to stop; to prohibit; until
• 址(bound form) site; location
• 旨imperial decree; purport; aim
• 徵4th note in the ancient Chinese pentatonic scale 五音
• 芷angelica (type of iris); plant root used in TCM
• 趾toe
• 酯ester
• 祉felicity
• 枳(orange); hedge thorn