茲

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷

兹

🇨🇳

herein

HSK 10

Abstract →Time

zī

シ、ジ

ここ.に、し.げる

자

Notes

Historical Evolution

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze

Warring States (475-221 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

茲

Regular

Modern

Chinese

兹 / 茲 [zī]

now; here; this; time; year

Japanese

此処 (rare) 、此所 (rare) 、是 (rare) 、茲 (rare) 、爰 (rare) ここ同音

pronoun

usually kana here; this place
usually kana this point; here; now
usually kana these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ... (followed by a duration noun)
usually kana the next ... (e.g. few days); these next ... (followed by a duration noun)

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (2)

ここに手のないナベがある。

Here is a pan without handles.

この町の人口はここ１０年間動きがない。

The population of this town has been static for the last ten years.

Japanese Names

茲しげる

Shigeru given name

CHINESE WORDS (68)

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Uzbekistan

华尔兹 [huá'ěrzī] #6,864

waltz (dance) (loanword)

洛佩兹 [Luòpèizī] #13,813

Lopez (name)

利兹 [Lìzī] #12,354

Leeds

乌兹别克 [Wūzībiékè] #34,194

Uzbek

赫兹 [Hèzī] #29,818

Hertz (name)

霍尔木兹海峡 [Huò'ěrmùzīHǎixiá] #38,819

Strait of Hormuz

格罗兹尼 [Géluózīní] #52,332

Grozny, capital of Chechen Republic, Russia

爱德华兹 [Aìdéhuázī] #45,954

Edwards (name)

罗兹 [Luózī] #27,127

Łódź, third largest city of Poland

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JAPANESE WORDS (5)