隻 (zhī)
Measure word for birds, certain animals, one of a pair, etc.
How 隻 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 隹 — small bird
- Traditional
- 隻
- Simplified
- 只
Components
- 隹 small bird
- 又 right hand
Common words using 隻
- 大隻 dàzhī
- big
- 形單影隻 xíngdānyǐngzhī
- lonely soul; solitary
- 船隻 chuánzhī
- ship; boat; vessel
- 隻字不提 zhīzìbùtí
- not to mention (idiom); to say not one word; fig. to omit mention (of a non-person or embarrassing topic); to censor
- 隻身 zhīshēn
- alone; by oneself
隻 in a sentence
樹上有一隻鳥。
Shùshàng yǒu yì zhī niǎo.
“There is a bird in the tree.”
How common is 隻?
隻 is the 97th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 41.2% of all running text.
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