茲
zīcí HSK7

now

兹 (茲) zī frequency
now pronoun
at the present time; used in formal contexts to mean hereby

兹定于明日上午举行会议。

zī dìng yú míng​rì shàng​wǔ jǔ​xíng huì​yì.

It has been scheduled that the meeting will be held tomorrow morning.

this pronoun
a literary demonstrative referring to someone or something being discussed

兹事体大，不可不慎。

zī shì​tǐ dà, bù kě bù​shèn.

This is a matter of great importance and must be handled with caution.

year pronoun
a literary term for a year

今兹美禾，来兹美麦。

jīn zī měi hé, lái zī měi mài.

The grain is fine this year, and the wheat will be fine next year.

兹 (茲) cí
Kucha component place name
used in the historical place name Kucha (龟兹 Qiū​cí)

龟兹是古丝绸之路上的一个重要古国。

qiū cí shì gǔ sī​chóu zhī lù shàng de yī gè zhòng​yào gǔ​guó.

Kucha was an important ancient kingdom on the Silk Road.

Cross-References

Has variant

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,781st most common 48.2 per million
Movie subtitles
1,243rd most common 66.4 per million appears in 12% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
21.6 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
11.9 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
兹
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+8332

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