HSK 6 · Nature

枝 zhī “branch” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 枝 means

  1. branch
  2. twig
  3. (measure word for pens, rifles, flowers)
  4. classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc

How to say 枝

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale枝zhī1st tone, high and level

枝 in a sentence

  1. 母亲在我的生日蛋糕上插上了十三枝蜡烛。

    Mǔqīn zài wǒ de shēngrì dàngāo shàng chā shàng le shísān zhī làzhú.

    My mother put thirteen candles on my birthday cake.

    Sentence #587436 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 女孩给了我一枝红玫瑰和一枝白玫瑰。

    Nǚhái gěi le wǒ yì zhī hóng méiguī hé yì zhī bái méiguī.

    The girl gave me a red rose and a white rose.

    Sentence #5925242 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 他割掉了树上的几根树枝。

    Tā gēdiào le shù shang de jǐ gēn shùzhī.

    He cut some branches off the tree.

    Sentence #839194 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 枝 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 枝 (zhī) with each of its parts in a different colour
枝zhībranch
  • 木tree · mùMeaning part
  • 支branch · zhīSound part

木 hints at the meaning (tree); 支 (zhī) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhī.

How to write 枝

枝 8 strokes

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枝 (zhī) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 枝 (zhī). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 枝

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FAQs

枝 (zhī) means “branch” or “twig”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhī: zhī with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 枝 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 枝 from the suggestions. Typing zhi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
枝 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.