之

HSK 4#160 by frequencyradical 丿

zhī["u","r","g"]

(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it

Examples

井底之蛙。

The frog in the well.

切身之痛。

It's a personal pain.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.