缁
zī

black silk

缁 (緇) zī
black silk noun
black silk or a dark color

古人常以缁色布料制衣。

gǔ​rén cháng yǐ zī sè bù​liào zhì yī.

Ancient people often used black cloth to make clothes.

Buddhists place name
referring to Buddhist monks or their monastic life, named after their dark robes

他在晚年决定遁入缁门，远离尘世的喧嚣。

tā zài wǎn​nián jué​dìng dùn​rù zī​mén, yuǎn​lí chén​shì de xuān​xiāo.

In his later years, he decided to enter the monkhood and leave the bustle of the world behind.

Frequency
Character
Written text
5,299th most common 0.713 per million
Word
Written text
4.52 per million

Details
Traditional
緇
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+7F01

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)