芝 (zhī)
sesame; Lingzhi mushroom
How 芝 is written
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 艹 — grass
- Traditional
- 芝
- Simplified
- 芝 (unchanged)
Components
- 艹 grass
- 王 jade
- 丶 dot
- 戈 spear
- ㇝ N/A
Common words using 芝
- 芝麻 zhīma
- sesame (seed)
- 芝加哥 zhījiāgē
- Chicago, USA
- 芝士 zhīshì
- cheese (loanword)
- 芝麻官 zhīmaguān
- low ranking official; petty bureaucrat
- 靈芝 língzhī
- lingzhi or reishi mushroom (Ganoderma lucidum)
- 黑芝麻 hēizhīma
- sesame (seed)
- 東芝 dōngzhī
- Toshiba, Japanese electronics company
- 林芝 línzhī
- Nyingchi prefecture of Tibet, Tibetan: Nying khri, Chinese Linzhi
- 白芝麻 báizhīma
- sesame seed
- 芝罘區 zhīfúqū
- Zhifu district of Yantai city 煙台市|烟台市, Shandong
- 芝蘭 zhīlán
- lit. iris and orchid; fig. exalted sentiments; (expr. of praise for noble character, beautiful surrounding, future prospects etc)
- 芝蘭之室 zhīlánzhīshì
- lit. a room with irises and orchids (idiom); fig. in wealthy and pleasant company
芝 in a sentence
我喜歡吃芝麻包。
Wǒ xǐhuān chī zhīma bāo.
“I like eating sesame buns.”
How common is 芝?
芝 is the 2,145th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 97.6% of all running text.
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