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织 zhī to knit

to knit; to weave; to organize

How to remember 织: 纟 thread + 只 only = to knit. With a single ball of thread and only one evening before the birthday, grandma sits down to knit a tiny hat.

  • HSK 5
  • 8 strokes
  • Radical 纟

Component breakdown

织 = 纟 thread + 只 only

  • 纟 thread
  • 只 only
    • 口 mouth
    • 八 eight
The Gushi story

With a single ball of thread and only one evening before the birthday, grandma sits down to knit a tiny hat.

How it is used

  • Bound verb morpheme literally meaning "to weave/knit", but its most common modern use has drifted to organizational meaning.
  • 组织 (zǔzhī) "to organize" / "an organization" is by far the most frequent compound and has nothing literally to do with cloth: 组织活动 "organize an activity", 一个组织 "an organization".
  • 纺织 (fǎngzhī) "spinning and weaving/textiles" keeps the literal sense (纺织业 "textile industry"), while 编织 (biānzhī) "to weave, knit" is used both literally (编织毛衣 "knit a sweater") and figuratively (编织梦想 "weave dreams").

Words with 织

Example sentences

  • 人体的组织结构很复杂。 Réntǐ de zǔzhī jiégòu hěn fùzá.The structure of the human body is complicated.