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志

aspiration; ambition; the will

7 strokes Dict coverage rank #616 U+5FD7

How 志 is formed

Ideographic compound (会意字)

The mind 心 of a scholar 士; 士 also provides the pronunciation

components: 士 心

How to remember it

aspiration · Heisig RSH #568

士 soldier + 心 heart

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words containing 志

WordPinyinMeaning
德意志学术交流中心 Dé yì zhì Xué shù Jiāo liú Zhōng xīn German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
小人得志 xiǎo rén dé zhì lit. a vile character flourishes (idiom); fig. an inferior person gets into a position of …
德意志民主共和国 Dé yì zhì Mín zhǔ Gòng hé guó German Democratic Republic (East Germany), 1945-1990
日本国志 Rì běn Guó zhì 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 shén zhì bù qīng to be delirious; to be mentally confused
三国志 Sān guó zhì History of the Three Kingdoms, fourth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3]…
志同道合 zhì tóng dào hé (idiom) to be devoted to a common cause; to be like-minded
有志气 yǒu zhì qì ambitious
有志之士 yǒu zhì zhī shì (idiom) person committed to a noble cause or ideal
大元大一统志 Dà Yuán Dà yī tǒng zhì Da Yuan Dayitongzhi, Yuan dynasty geographical encyclopedia, compiled 1285-1294 under Jama…
小花远志 xiǎo huā yuǎn zhì small-flowered milkwort (Polygala arvensis Willd. or P. telephioides), with roots used in …
德意志银行 Dé yì zhì Yín háng Deutsche Bank
临海水土志 Lín hǎi Shuǐ tǔ zhì Seaboard Geographic Gazetteer (c. 275) by Shen Ying 沈瑩|沈莹
大一统志 Dà yī tǒng zhì Da Yuan Dayitongzhi, Yuan dynasty geographical encyclopedia, compiled 1285-1294 under Jama…
意志力 yì zhì lì willpower
德意志 Dé yì zhì Deutschland; Germany
自由意志主义 zì yóu yì zhì zhǔ yì libertarianism
以死明志 yǐ sǐ míng zhì to demonstrate one's sincerity by dying
胸无大志 xiōng wú dà zhì to have no aspirations (idiom); unambitious
民族志 mín zú zhì ethnography