志
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aspiration; ambition; the will
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 心 +3
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 志
- Common rank
- #616
- Unicode
- U+5FD7
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Words with 志
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 德意志学术交流中心 | German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) | |
| 小人得志 | lit. a vile character flourishes (idiom); fig. an inferior person gets into a position of … | |
| 德意志民主共和国 | German Democratic Republic (East Germany), 1945-1990 | |
| 日本国志 | A Record of Japan, by Huang Zunxian 黃遵憲|黄遵宪[Huang2 Zun1 xian4], an extended analysis of Me… | |
| 神志不清 | to be delirious; to be mentally confused | |
| 三国志 | History of the Three Kingdoms, fourth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3]… | |
| 志同道合 | (idiom) to be devoted to a common cause; to be like-minded | |
| 有志气 | ambitious | |
| 有志之士 | (idiom) person committed to a noble cause or ideal | |
| 大元大一统志 | Da Yuan Dayitongzhi, Yuan dynasty geographical encyclopedia, compiled 1285-1294 under Jama… | |
| 小花远志 | small-flowered milkwort (Polygala arvensis Willd. or P. telephioides), with roots used in … | |
| 德意志银行 | Deutsche Bank | |
| 临海水土志 | Seaboard Geographic Gazetteer (c. 275) by Shen Ying 沈瑩|沈莹 | |
| 大一统志 | Da Yuan Dayitongzhi, Yuan dynasty geographical encyclopedia, compiled 1285-1294 under Jama… | |
| 意志力 | willpower | |
| 德意志 | Deutschland; Germany | |
| 自由意志主义 | libertarianism | |
| 以死明志 | to demonstrate one's sincerity by dying | |
| 胸无大志 | to have no aspirations (idiom); unambitious | |
| 民族志 | ethnography |