Chinese symbol for “decade”
秩
zhì
(literary) salary according to rank; (literary) an official's rank; (literary) order; orderliness; (literary) decade
The closest CC-CEDICT match for decade is 秩 (zhì), defined as: (literary) salary according to rank; (literary) an official's rank; (literary) order; orderliness; (literary) decade.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 秩.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 秩序 | zhì xù | order; orderliness (in society, in the classroom, on the roads etc) |
| 公共秩序 | gōng gòng zhì xù | public order |
| 秩序井然 | zhì xù jǐng rán | in perfect order |
| 禄秩 (祿秩) | lù zhì | official rank and pay |
| 品秩 | pǐn zhì | (old) rank and salary of an official post |
| 无秩序 (無秩序) | wú zhì xù | disorder |
See also: Japanese symbol for “decade”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.