咫 zhǐ
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zhǐ
noun
an eight inch unit of length
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the Zhou dynasty (CC-CEDICT '咫'; Guoyu '咫' n; Mathews 1931 '咫', p. 131; Unihan '咫') -
zhǐ
adjective
close; short
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '咫' adj)
Contained in
- 咫尺之地 a very small area
- 咫尺千里 so close, yet worlds apart
- 近在咫尺 to be almost within reach; to be close at hand
- 天涯咫尺 so close, yet worlds apart
- 咫尺天颜(咫尺天顏) a close advisor to the emperor
- 咫闻(咫聞) so close that you can hear
- 咫尺 very close
- 咫尺天涯 so close, yet worlds apart
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- Scroll 4 Xin Shu 新書 — count: 5
- Scroll 5 Xin Shu 新書 — count: 4
- 《尺部》 Chǐ Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 3
- 卷二十七下之上 五行志 Volume 27d: Treatise on the Five Elements 4 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 2
- 《孔子世家》 House of Confucius Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 2
- 卷七 秦五 Chapter 7: Qin V Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 2
- 卷十八 辨物 Chapter 18: Distinguishes Things Garden of Stories 說苑 — count: 2
- 魯語下 Discourses of Lu II Guoyu 國語 — count: 2
- 卷二十一 趙四 Chapter 21: Zhao IV Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 2
- 卷二十五 Scroll 25 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
Collocations
- 曰咫 (曰咫) 八寸曰咫 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十七 班梁列傳 Volume 47: Biographies of Ban, Liang — count: 4
- 薄咫 (薄咫) 墻薄咫亟壞 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 5 — count: 4
- 咫步 (咫步) 猶人之行咫步也 — Liezi 列子, 卷第七 楊朱篇 Chapter 7: Yang Zhu — count: 3