HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Things

纸 zhǐ “paper” in Chinese

Traditional 紙

What 纸 means

  1. paper
  2. classifier for documents, letters etc

How to say 纸

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale纸zhǐ3rd tone, dipping

纸 in a sentence

  1. 纸是中国发明的。

    Zhǐ shì Zhōngguó fāmíng de.

    Paper was invented in China.

    Sentence #1315973 from Tatoeba

  2. 给我一张纸。

    Gěi wǒ yì zhāng zhǐ.

    Give me a piece of paper.

    Sentence #9982219 from Tatoeba

  3. 她用铅笔在纸上画了一个圈。

    Tā yòng qiānbǐ zài zhǐ shàng huà le yí ge quān.

    She drew a circle on the paper with a pencil.

    Sentence #866736 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 纸 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 纸 (zhǐ) with each of its parts in a different colour
纸zhǐpaper 张,沓)
  • 纟silk form of 糸 · mìMeaning part
  • 氏clan · shìSound part

纟 hints at the meaning (silk); 氏 (shì) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhǐ.

How to write 纸

纸 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 纸

Words with 纸

报纸bàozhǐ · newspaper

More words: Things & Objects

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FAQs

纸 (zhǐ) means “paper” or “classifier for documents, letters etc”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it zhǐ: zhǐ with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 纸 is written 紙. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 纸 from the suggestions. Typing zhi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
纸 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 4 word list. It is not on the older 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.