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Mythic Mandarin

志 (zhì): meaning and stroke order

志 (zhì) means aspiration, ambition, the will, sign, mark, to record, to write a footnote.

志

Simplified
志
Traditional
志, 誌
Pinyin
zhì

Stroke order of 志

志

  • zhì aspiration; ambition
  • zhì sign; mark
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 誌

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 志

  1. zhì
    • aspiration
    • ambition
    • the will
  2. zhì Traditional 誌
    • sign
    • mark
    • to record
    • to write a footnote

Radical and structure

志
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 7 strokes · 士 on top, 心 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 志

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).