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指事

zhǐ shì

2-character word

What 指事 means

1. ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六书 of forming Chinese characters)
2. Chinese character indicating an idea, such as up and down
3. also known as self-explanatory character

The characters in 指事

• 指zhǐfinger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to
• 事shìmatter; thing; item

Words starting with 指事

• 指事字zhǐ shì zìideogram (one of the Six Methods 六书 of forming Chinese characters)…

Sounds the same

Read zhǐ shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 只是merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however
• 指示to point out; to indicate; to instruct

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhǐ shì correctly.
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