之

of (in writing)

No. 69 most used

How it's built

A single shape: nothing smaller to learn.

A way to remember it

An older 的, alive in writing: 百分之十 is ten percent.

Words

• 之前

  zhī qián

  before; prior to; ago
• 之后

  zhī hòu

  after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then
• 之间

  zhī jiān

  (after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 弹指之间)
• 之一

  zhī yī

  one of (sth); one out of a multitude; one (third, quarter, percent etc)
• 总之

  zǒng zhī

  in a word; in short; in brief
• 之中

  zhī zhōng

  inside; among; in the midst of (doing sth)

Sentences

• 我会在那之前见他。

  wǒ huì zài nà zhī qián jiàn tā

  I'll see him before that.
• 一小时之内我就会到。

  yì xiǎo shí zhī nèi wǒ jiù huì dào

  I'll be coming within an hour.
• 他是两人之中最大的。

  tā shì liǎng rén zhī zhōng zuì dà de

  He is the older of the two.
• 工作之后我直接回家。

  gōng zuò zhī hòu wǒ zhí jiē huí jiā

  After work I go straight home.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.