Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- zhī
English
- marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase
- (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5])
- inserted between a nominal modifier and a head noun, sometimes used to indicate possession; similar to 嘅
- used in certain set phrases for the object in a sentence; "it"
- it, him her, them
- him
- used as a constituent in the expression of a fraction i.e. "the numerator + 分 (fan6) 之 + the denominator", which can be sometimes omitted
- go to
- her
- inserted between a subject and a predicate to produce a noun phrase
- it
- affixed to certain words, with no change of meaning
粵語
- 加喺名詞定語同中心名詞之間,有時表示從屬關係;類似「嘅」
- 喺某啲固定短語中代指某個特定賓語
- 用嚟構成「分子+『分』(fan6)+『之』分母」嘅詞組嚟到表達分數,有時可以省略
- 放喺主語同謂語之間,形成名詞短語/詞組
- 加插去某啲詞語,而冇改變到意思
As a component in · 25
Words containing 之
- 之後zi1 hau6
after; behind
- 之間zi1 gaan1
(after a noun) between; among; amid
- 之前zi1 cin4
before
- 之一zi1 jat1
one of (sth)
- 有之jau5 zi1
possible
- 之中zi1 zung1
inside
- 之外zi1 ngoi6
outside
- 之下zi1 haa6
under
- 之類zi1 leoi2
and so on
- 總之zung2 zi1
in a word
- 話之waa6 zi1
cannot bother; ignore (spoken)
- 之內zi1 noi6
inside; within
- 之上zi1 soeng6
above
- 之際zi1 zai3
during
- 反之faan2 zi1
on the other hand...
- 之嘛zi1 maa3
(modal particle) Used at the end of a sentence, usually to show the unimportance of the thing you talked about; "that's all"
- 極之gik6 zi1
cery or highly; extremely; immensely
- 之餘zi1 jyu4
other than
- 之不過zi1 bat1 gwo3
(conjunction) however; but;
- 之所以zi1 so2 ji5
(after a noun N and before a predicate P) the reason why N P
- 非常之fei1 soeng4 zi1
very
- 卒之zeot1 zi1
(adverb) at last; finally; eventually
- 稱之為cing1 zi1 wai4
to call it...
- 當務之急dong1 mou6 zi1 gap1
(idiom) top priority job; a matter of the greatest urgency