质

質traditional

#1533 by frequency

zhì

character; nature; quality; plain; to pawn; pledge; hostage; to question; Taiwan pr. [zhi2]

Examples

椅子是木质的。

The chair is made of wood.

自由的本质就是数学。

The essence of liberty is mathematics.

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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.