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挚

zhì

HSK 6 Character Traditional 摯

What 挚 means

1. sincere

Other readings

挚 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Zhìsurname Zhi

Example sentences

• 你就是我永远的挚爱。
  Nǐ jiùshì wǒ yǒngyuǎn de zhì'ài.
  It's you I'll always love.
• 请接受我诚挚的歉意。
  Qǐng jiēshòu wǒ chéngzhì de qiànyì.
  Please accept my sincere apologies.
• 请接受我对您今天的成功最诚挚的祝贺。
  Qǐng jiēshòu wǒ duì nín jīntiān de chénggōng zuì chéngzhì de zhùhè.
  Please accept my sincere congratulations on your success today.
• 我们在书中认识的人可以带给我们愉悦或是他们与我们生活中挚爱的朋友相似，或是因为他们是我们所不熟悉却乐于结识的人。
  Wǒmen zài shū zhōng rènshi de rén kěyǐ dàigěi wǒmen yúyuè huòshì tāmen yǔ wǒmen shēnghuó zhōng zhì'ài de péngyou xiāngsì, huòshì yīnwèi tāmen shì wǒmen suǒ bù shúxī què lèyú jiéshí de rén.
  The people we meet in books can delight us either because they resemble the friends we hold dear in real life, or because they are unfamiliar people that we are pleased to get to know.
• 如果没有我过去16年最好的朋友、我们家庭的中坚、我生命中的挚爱，我今天晚上不可能站在这里，美国下一位第一夫人米歇尔-奥巴马。
  Rúguǒ méiyǒu wǒ guòqù 16 nián zuì hǎo de péngyou, wǒmen jiātíng de zhōngjiān, wǒ shēngmìng zhōng de zhì'ài, wǒ jīntiān wǎnshang bù kěnéng zhàn zài zhèlǐ, Měiguó xià yī wèi dìyīfūrén Mǐxiē'ěr - àobāmǎ.
  And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years, the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation's next first lady, Michelle Obama.

Words starting with 挚

• 挚友zhì yǒuintimate friend; close friend
• 挚爱zhì àitrue love
• 挚切zhì qièsincere; fervent
• 挚情zhì qíngtrue feelings
• 挚诚zhì chéngsincere
• 挚友良朋zhì yǒu liáng péngintimate friend and companion (idiom)

Words containing 挚

• 真挚zhēn zhìsincere; sincerity
• 诚挚chéng zhìsincere; cordial
• 深挚shēn zhìheartfelt and genuine
• 笃挚dǔ zhìsincere (in friendship); cordial

Characters built on 执

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

• 势shìpower; influence; potential
• 鸷zhìfierce; brutal; bird of prey
• 贽zhìgifts to superiors
• 絷zhíto connect; to tie up

Characters that look like 挚

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

• 拿náto hold; to seize; to catch
• 梦mèngdream; (bound form) to dream
• 婴yīnginfant; baby
• 犁líplow
• 鸯yāngused in 鸳鸯
• 荤hūnstrong-smelling vegetable (garlic etc); non-vegetarian food (meat, fish etc); vulgar

Sounds the same

Read zhì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 至to arrive; most; to
• 质character; nature; quality
• 志aspiration; ambition; the will
• 制system; to control; to regulate
• 治to rule; to govern; to manage
• 置to install; to place; to put
• 致(bound form) fine; delicate; exquisite
• 智(literary) wise; wisdom
• 秩(literary) salary according to rank; (literary) an official's rank; (literary) order…
• 滞(bound form) sluggish; stagnant
• 帜flag
• 掷to toss; to throw dice; Taiwan pr. zhí