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秩

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(literary) salary according to rank; (literary) an official's rank; (literary) order; orderliness; (literary) decade

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Old HSK
Level 5
Strokes
10
Radical
禾 +5
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
秩
Common rank
#3,399
Unicode
U+79E9

Sound it out + =

Formation & memory

Break the character into parts you already know.

How 秩 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

禾 meaning “grain” + 失 sound ( shī )

Components 禾 失

How to remember it

order · Heisig RSH #2018

wild rice + 失 lose

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 秩

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
公共秩序 gōng gòng zhì xù public order
秩序井然 zhì xù jǐng rán in perfect order
无秩序 wú zhì xù disorder
秩序美 zhì xù měi order (as an aesthetic quality)
品秩 pǐn zhì (old) rank and salary of an official post
秩序 zhì xù order; orderliness (in society, in the classroom, on the roads etc)
禄秩 lù zhì official rank and pay
秩禄 zhì lù official salaries

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 失 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
失 sound part shī to lose; to make a mistake, to neglect
铁 tiě iron; strong, solid, firm
迭 dié repeatedly, frequently
帙 zhì book jacket; satchel, bag
轶 yì to surpass, to overtake, to excel
泆 yì to overflow; licentious, libertine, dissipated
瓞 dié young melon
袟 zhì bag, satchel; book cover
鉄 tiě iron; strong, solid, firm