之类
zhī lèi 1–4
and so on; and such
- Characters
- 2
- 之 · 类
- Syllables
- 2
- zhī lèi
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 1,380
Part of speech: r
Character by character
- 之zhī4 strokesHSK 4marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; go to
- 类lèi9 strokesHSK 3 traditional 類class, group, kind, category
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 之类. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 之zhīHSK 7
(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it
- 之后zhī hòuHSK 4
after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then
- 之间zhī jiānHSK 4
(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)
- 之前zhī qiánHSK 4
before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand
- 之一zhī yīHSK 4
one of (sth); one out of a multitude; one (third, quarter, percent etc)
- 人类rén lèiHSK 3
humanity; human race; mankind
- 类lèiHSK 3
kind; type; class; category; similar; like; to resemble
- 之中zhī zhōngHSK 5
inside; among; in the midst of (doing sth); during
- 之外zhī wàiHSK 5
outside; excluding
- 类似lèi sìHSK 3
similar; analogous
- 类型lèi xíngHSK 4
type; kind; category; (computer programming) type
- 之下zhī xiàHSK 5
under; beneath; less than
- 之内zhī nèiHSK 5
inside; within
- 之所以zhī suǒ yǐHSK 7
(after a noun N and before a predicate P) the reason why N P; Example: 我之所以讨厌他 "the reason why I dislike him (is ...)"
- 总之zǒng zhīHSK 4
in a word; in short; in brief
- 分类fēn lèiHSK 5
to classify
- 除此之外chú cǐ zhī wàiHSK 7
apart from this; in addition to this
- 种类zhǒng lèiHSK 4
kind; genus; type; category; variety; species; sort; class
- 同类tóng lèiHSK 7
similar; same type; alike
- 当务之急dāng wù zhī jíHSK 7
top priority job; matter of vital importance
- 类别lèi biéHSK 7
classification; category
- 不正之风bù zhèng zhī fēngHSK 7
unhealthy tendency
- 取而代之qǔ ér dài zhīHSK 7
(idiom) to replace; to supersede; to take its (or her etc) place
- 反之fǎn zhī
on the other hand...; conversely...