之 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

zhī HSK4

[attributive particle]

之 zhī

possessive particle particle: literary equivalent of the possessive particle 的 de; 赤子之心

chìzǐ zhī xīn

A pure, child-like heart.

pronoun pronoun: literary third-person pronoun used as an object (him, her, it, or them); 取之不尽

qǔ zhī bùjìn

Inexhaustible.

Frequency

Character

Written text: 44th most common 3147.2 per million
Movie subtitles: 130th most common 1382.4 per million appears in 99% of films

Word

Movie subtitles: 471.1 per million appears in 76% of films
Written text: 1099.5 per million

Details

HSK 2.0: Level 4
HSK 3.0: Level 4
Strokes: 3
Unicode: U+4E4B

Sources

Definitions: CC-CEDICT
Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)