咫 — Chinese character
咫
zhǐ
unit of length used during the Zhou dynasty
- Pinyin
- zhǐ
- Radical
- 30 ⼝ (Mouth)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 尺 只
- Formation
- pictophonetic — ruler; meaning component 尺; sound component 只
- Japanese
- 咫 as a kanji
Common words with 咫
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 近在咫尺 | jìn zài zhǐ chǐ | (idiom) very close; almost within reach; close at hand |
| 咫尺 | zhǐ chǐ | (literary) very close; very near |
| 咫尺天涯 | zhǐ chǐ tiān yá | so close, yet worlds apart (idiom) |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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